arrestern.
/əˈrɛstə/, U.S. /əˈrɛstər/ 1.
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a. He who or that which arrests, stops, or checks.
b. He who arrests by legal authority.
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [noun] > one who arrests
messenger?1316
arrester1440
attacher1440
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apprehender1608
society > law > law enforcement > law-enforcement or peace-officer > [noun] > one whose duty is arresting offenders
provosta1382
alguazila1530
prévôt1577
shoulder-clappera1616
provo1692
trap1705
felon-setter1864
arrester1880
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 14 A-rester, or a-tacher, or a catcherel, or a catchepolle.
1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xxxviii. sig. G6v Satan..is at most but an Arrester, and Hell a Dungeon.
1879 G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone (new ed.) 28 A lightning arrester is provided in each box for the protection of the apparatus.
1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes iv. 278 He was carried home by the arrester and put in chains.
c. (Also arrestor.) A device in chimneys, etc., as an electrical precipitator, for preventing smoke or fire; also spark-arrester. Cf. also lightning n. and adj. Compounds 3.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > chimney > device to prevent smoke or fire
spark-arrester1838
1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 134/1 The adaptation of this contrivance, and also the spark arrester, is very much called for.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator I. 145/2 In American locomotives the top of the funnel is..fitted with a contrivance known as a ‘spark-trap’ or ‘spark-arrester’.
1881 Times 17 Feb. 11/4 The alleged negligence of the defendants in having a defective spark arrester on the engine.
1922 W. Schlich Man. Forestry (ed. 4) I. 190 Measures necessary to prevent forest fires must be taken, such as..the provision of efficient spark arresters.
1950 Hansard Commons CCCCLXXVIII. 271/1 The British Electricity Authority are in process of..installing what are known as [smoke] arresters.
d. A contrivance for bringing to rest aircraft alighting on an aircraft carrier; usually attributive, as arrester gear, arrester hook, arrester wire. See also arresting adj. b.
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society > travel > air or space travel > airfield or airport > [noun] > halting mechanism on aircraft carrier
arrester1926
1926 Flight 18 696/2 It is in connection with deck landing that the arrester gear is most likely to be of service.
1927 V. W. Pagé Mod. Aircraft (1928) xvii. 714 (heading) Catapults and Airplane Arresters.
1937 Aeroplane 9 June 691/2 About the same time our Fleet Air Arm gave up arrester-wires and took to trusting to wheel-brakes on bare decks.
1940 Flight 15 Feb. 147/1 A deck arrester hook is fitted.
1954 P. K. Kemp Fleet Air Arm vii. 92 A more satisfactory type of arrester gear was eventually fitted [‘Courageous’ and ‘Glorious’] consisting of transverse wires on the after part of the deck which were picked up by a trailing hook on the aircraft.
2. Scots Law. One who under legal authority arrests a debt or property in the hands of another. (In this sense now more formally spelt arrestor.)
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods > attachment of person or property for debt > arrestment of money or goods > one who arrests money or goods
arrester1757
1757 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. (ed. 2) II. iii. vi. 338 Where a poynding was forcibly stopped by the possessor of the goods, on pretence that they had been already arrested in his hands by another, the Lords considered the poynding as completed, in a question with the prior arrester.
1847 Nat. Encycl. II. 167/1 The person who uses it [arrestment] is called the arrestor; he in whose hands it is used is called the arrestee.
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