1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxviii. f. 302 ^v The best reclaimer of the wildest hauke coulde neuer take more payne or deuise mo shiftes to man the same for the better atchieuing of hir praie, than dyd this braue Baron sustaine for bryngyng his enterprise to effecte.

1676 Rep. French Capers 4 Aug. in A. Marvell Acct. Growth Popery (1678) 58 That all Privateers and Reclaimers know it.

1721 C. King Brit. Merchant I. 103 A Suit being commenced between the Captors of Prizes on one part, and the Reclaimers of the same on the other.

1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxiv. 143 The whole Country round you..owe great Obligations to your fair Reclaimer.

1779 St. Cecilia 36 This case being somewhat knotty and perplex'd, Their Lordships..superseded the extract 'till the 12th of June. Having lost it so nigh, we prepar'd for the Summer, and on 12th June, presented a reclaimer.

1833 Blackwood's Mag. 33 16/1 It [sc. Jacobinism] may at one time flourish under the grand pretence of national rights,..it may be the reclaimer of ancient privileges, [etc.].

1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers I. 22 The first reclaimers of the Fen lands seem to have been the religious recluses.

1868 Act 31 & 32 Victoria c. 100 §52 After a reclaiming note has been present, the reclaimer shall not be at liberty to withdraw it.

1910 Times 8 Jan. 11/5 The curator reclaimed, and the Court heard part of the reclaimer's argument before they rose for the Christmas recess.

1979 Belt Conveyors for Bulk Materials (Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Assoc., U.S.) (ed. 2) i. 7 Belt conveyors, with their stackers and reclaimers, have become the only practical means for large-scale stockpiling and reclaiming of such bulk materials as coal, ore, and taconite pellets.

1980 J. Felstiner Translating Neruda ii. 49 He did not need Inca or other Amerindian mythologies to personify the fecund, changeful earth as a mother, a giver and reclaimer of life.

2004 Concrete Products (Nexis) 1 Nov. 11 [Water] is collected into a bunker and pumped back to the reclaimer for further washout of incoming returned concrete.

1650 H. Brooke Υγιεινη 230 We ought even in our Angers to give some manifest of a desire of good to the Person we are angry withall, as of Reclaimer, of his amendment and altering his Course.

1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 40 Obstinacy and opposition to, and despight of the meanes and motions of reclaimer.

1824 R. Heber Jrnl. 20 Nov. in Narr. Journey Upper Provinces India (1828) I. 456 The forest was..under a gradual process of reclaimer; the cowmen and woodmen were pushing their incursions farther every year.

1856 L. M. Sargent Dealings with Dead II. xcviii. 387 I knew an old gentleman, who was always so much affected..by the sight of his cast-off clothing, upon the persons of his servants, that nothing would content him, short of reclaimer.