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squeezer|ˈskwiːzə(r)|
[f. squeeze v.]
1. One who squeezes, in various senses.
1611Cotgr., Pressoireur, a pressor, strainer, squeezer of iuyce, or liquor, out of things. 1679T. Jordan Lond. in Luster 16 In that Scene below, I saw a fellow carried in a throng of Squeezers, upon Men's backs like a Pageant for the space of thirty Yards. 1694Motteux Rabelais iv. xxxii. (1737) 136 Grinders and Squeezers of Livings. 1818Blackw. Mag. III. 518 Item, 7 sitters, or rather squeezers, in the inside. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. 178 ‘Aye,’ rejoined the squeezer of lemons, ‘poor Sidney!’ 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 466 The moulds..are kept dry..so that the squeezer can often separate his work from them readily. 1894Daily News 17 Feb. 5/4 Though the patrician ‘squeezers’ of the Coreans cannot apparently be ‘mended’ [etc.].
2.
†a. A crowded assembly; a squeeze. Obs.—1
1756F. Brooke Old Maid No. 16. 128 The day after my arrival, I went to the countess of ―s Squeezer, where I was sure of meeting her.
b. slang. The hangman's rope; the noose.
1836Mahony Rel. Father Prout II. 115 For Larry was always the lad, When a friend was condemned to the squeezer.
c. A squeezing pressure.
1822Blackw. Mag. XII. 101 Give the lemons a squeezer.
3. a. A mechanical device or apparatus, an implement, by which pressure can be applied. Also attrib.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 133 The squeezing rollers or squeezers, for discharging the greater part of the water from the yarns and goods in the process of bleaching. Ibid. 233 The piece is drawn through by a pair of squeezer cylinders at the end of the trough. 1846Holtzapffel Turning II. 919 This machine has also two squeezers for moulding pieces of iron when red-hot to the particular forms of the dies. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. III. 327/1 A scraper or ‘squeezer’, made by securing a slip of india-rubber between two slips of wood.
b. spec. An apparatus by which a ball of puddled iron is reduced to a compact mass.
1843Holtzapffel Turning I. 187 The shingling is sometimes performed by large squeezers, something like huge pliers. 1868Joynson Metals 74 The loupes are then removed successively from the furnace, and placed either under the hammer or squeezer. 1890W. J. Gordon Foundry 60 Drilling-machines, punchers, squeezers, shearers, all of mighty size.
4. Usu. pl. A playing-card which has its value indicated in one or two corners, so that a player may ascertain his hand while holding the cards closely arranged. (App. orig. used in poker, but now standard.)
1876Paper & Printing Trades Jrnl. Sept. 8/1 The ‘Squeezers’ Playing Cards introduced by Messrs. Lawrence Brothers..are rapidly rising in popular estimation. 1888Amer. Humorist 15 Sept. 3/1 The editor picked up his hand, slid the squeezers past his good eye, and began to softly whisper the ‘Pirate King’. 1906G. Frankau X.Y.Z. of Bridge 47 Horatius in a long frock-coat Rending two ‘squeezer’ packs. 1930C. P. Hargrave Hist. Playing Cards xiii. 345 The New York Consolidated Card Company..issued indexed cards..under the name of ‘Squeezers’. |