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speeder|ˈspiːdə(r)|
Also 5 speder, -ar.
[f. speed v.]
1. One who speeds, aids, or furthers; a helper or forwarder. Now arch.
c1400Laud Troy Bk. 4798 He made him lord and her leder, And prayed god be her speder. c1440York Myst. i. 110 To spill vs þu was oure spedar. 1616Chapman Homer's Hymn Hermes 52 Speeder of Nights spies And guide of all her dreames obscurities. 1859G. Meredith R. Feverel xxxviii, I ain't a speeder of matrimony, and good's my reason! 1887Morris Odyss. xiii. 41 For now are all things ready.., The speeders and gifts of well-wishers.
†2. One who prospers or succeeds, esp. in a suit.
1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 405 Your wooers [will be] good old Gentlemen before they be speeders. 1592Greene Philomela Wks. (Grosart) XI. 155 He that is a sutor in Ieast, maye be a speeder in earnest. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Perdeur, The miserable pleader is a miserable speeder; the sparing of a fee is often the spoyle of a cause. 1671H. M. tr. Erasm. Colloq. 32 Go thy way advocate, thou wilt come back again a speeder.
transf.1611Chapman Widdowes T. Wks. 1873 III. 7 My former suites have been all spenders, this shall be a speeder.
3. A device or contrivance for quickening or regulating the speed of machinery; also, a kind of roving-machine used in cotton-manufacture.
1847Knickerbocker XXX. 517 A few [girls] tend the ‘warpers’, the ‘spoolers’, and the ‘speeders’. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2261/1 The twist, which is given in the bobbin and fly frame by the rotation of the spindle and flyer, is given in the speeder by an endless belt.
4. One who cycles, motors, etc., at a high rate of speed; a fast car, horse, etc. Also spec. one who exceeds the speed limit in a vehicle.
1891in Cent. Dict. 1893Columbus (Ohio) Disp. 6 Sept., A certain good-fellowship has been established between the speeders and the city. 1974R. B. Parker God save Child i. 6 [The police] have to arrest drunks and flag down speeders and break up fights.
5. N. Amer. A small vehicle running on railway tracks used for line maintenance, etc., orig. only manually propelled.
1905J. Outram In Heart of Canad. Rockies 152 The top of a box car is the choicest of propelling methods, unless one can get a ride on a hand-car or a speeder, with opportunity to slacken speed or stop whenever one desires. 1934Sun (Baltimore) 6 Aug. 2/1 One hour in advance of the pilot train section men went over the President's route in gasoline ‘speeders’. 1947A. Saunders Algonquin Story xi. 128 The husband, apparently a section man, had rushed up the tracks on a three-wheeled ‘speeder’ to bring Molly back to help. 1960J. J. Rowlands Spindrift from House by Sea ii. 107 They had taken him out with pneumonia..fifty miles on a gasoline speeder..at twenty below zero. 1970R. & J. Paterson Cranberry Portage xxiii. 152 For days I travelled by locomotive, trolley, speeder, anything moving my way. |