furnishern.
/ˈfəːnᵻʃə/, U.S. /ˈfərnɪʃər/ 1.
a. One who furnishes, in senses of the verb; spec. one who supplies furniture.
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the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > provider or supplier
purveyor1340
supplier1384
purveyoressc1400
providerc1485
suppeditator1542
furnisher1611
subministrator1625
sitarch1656
caterer1706
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [noun] > of a house > furnishing > furnisher
furnisher1894
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fournisseur, a furnisher.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 269 Their victuals are brought dayly..each furnisher ringing the Bell, giveth warning to his friends, to come receive their necessars.
1694 Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) ii. 158 The Line-furnisher, or the Man that doth look after the Ropes.
1759 J. Lauder Decisions I. 303 Some gave out the Duchess of Lauderdale as a..furnisher of him with money.
1881 Daily News 8 Nov. 5/2 The furnishers of pantomine properties.
1894 Westm. Gaz. 16 Aug. 3/1 Diversity is the aim of the modern furnisher.
b. Australian. Mining. (See quot. 1869.)
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1869 R. B. Smyth Gold Fields Victoria 612 Furnisher, a capitalist who by erecting machinery for, or otherwise assisting a party of miners working a claim, becomes entitled to a share of the profits.
2. In textile printing, a revolving brush or roller that supplies the colour.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > printing > equipment for
wheelbarrow-machine1856
furnisher1897
1897 C. F. S. Rothwell Printing Textile Fabrics i. 29 The furnisher generally revolves the same way as the printing roller, and consists then of the ordinary cloth-covered wooden roller; but when pigment colours, or any colour that has a tencency to stick in the engraving, are being printed it is usual to use a brush furnisher and to work it in the opposite way.
1898 F. H. Thorp Outl. Industr. Chem. i. 495 The color is fed to the print roll from the color box by a revolving cylindrical brush called the ‘furnisher’, which dips into the color paste.
1961 H. Blackshaw & R. Brightman Dict. Dyeing 29 The Brush Furnisher is used for print pastes containing a high solids content of heavy density ingredients such as zinc oxide.
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