airern.
/ˈɛːrə/, U.S. /ˈɛrər/ 1. A person who airs something or someone (in various senses).
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a1679 Earl of Orrery Guzman (1693) iv. 38 The truth is, we heard, that these two Airers of their Swords, did wish for some to Court you with them.
1757 C. Talbot Let. 29 July in Series of Lett. E. Carter & C. Talbot (1809) II. 250 We visit eighteen families at from three to fourteen miles distant, and twenty I believe in Oxford, and are besides eternal riders, walkers, and airers.
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Airer, one that exposes to the air.
1884 Manch. Examiner 10 Dec. 3/6 Mrs. Jackson is no rabid airer of grievances.
1920 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 3/3 The ‘airers’ of wounded soldiers were dreaming of jaunts without hospital blue.
c1984 T. R. Cleary Henry Fielding iv. 156 A few newspapers (the Champion and Common Sense, airers of real grievances).
2. A frame on which clothes, etc., are aired.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > frame for hanging washing on to dry
hake1689
horse1706
winter dyke1748
maid1795
clothes-horse1807
winter hedge1812
airer1817
clothes-screen1832
linen-horse1845
maiden1856
maiden maker?1881
1817 Times 3 Oct. 4/2 (advt.) Mahogany bedside tables, chamber baths, linen airers, [etc.]
1861 J. H. Walsh & J. I. Lupton Horse xv. 280 The best form of saddle airer, in which the saddle is securely fixed in such a position that the fire only reaches the interior of the lining.
1959 Which? Aug. 94/1 Airer Driers..all work on the same basic principle. Washing is spread out on horizontal rods and is dried by warm air from an electric heater.
2000 S. Mackay Heligoland vi. 88 An airer, worked by rope pulleys, is suspended from the ceiling in the dry atmosphere where the light sparkles.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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