screedern.
/ˈskriːdə/, U.S. /ˈskridər/ 1. U.S. A writer of screeds (screed n.1 3a). Also in weakened use. Now somewhat rare.
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1878 Weekly Reg.-Call (Central City, Colorado) 19 July Of all the screeders the most screeding screeder is the man in a stage driver's overcoat.
1886 Boston Daily Globe 12 Feb. 1/6 Will Stuart,..a brilliant screeder on social topics, is adapting a French play.
1920 E. Hemingway Let. 1 Jan. in Sel. Lett. (1981) 31 I miss you so I feel like talking to you so excuse all this raveage about what the screeder is doing.
2003 W. R. Pitt Greatest Sedition is Silence 187 They chose to take a chance on an unknown Internet screeder, and I am eternally in their debt.
2. Building.
a. A person employed to spread a layer of concrete, asphalt, or similar substance into a level surface for a road, driveway, pavement, etc.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > screeder of floors
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1915 Canad. Engineer 13 May 544/1 Two laborers at the bottom of the chute distribute the concrete to two screeders who work from the berm level.
1920 Times 11 Aug. 7/2 The Court decided that..corresponding advances be made to stone-dressers, rammermen, concrete-levellers, screeders, steamroller drivers, platelayers, tarpot men, and sett dressers.
1977 Evening Post (Nottingham) 24 Jan. 11/2 (advt.) Floor Screeders required (male–female) for long term contract in Nottingham.
2015 Spon's Architects' & Builders' Price Bk. 2016 (ed. 141) ii. 51 (table) Screeder and Concrete Surface Finisher working from datum such as road-form, edge beam or wire.
b. A straight edge or rule which is scraped over a layer of concrete, asphalt, or similar substance, in order to spread it into a level surface. Now chiefly: a machine incorporating a mechanized version of this, which typically compacts the substance being spread by vibrating or rolling. Cf. screed n.1 4b.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > [noun] > levelling
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1915 Munic. Jrnl. 21 Oct. 633/1 The flat surfaces of the top of the rail allows [sic] the use of a screeder.
1952 Creston (Iowa) News Advertiser 13 May 9/5 (advt.) Driveways and sidewalks vibrated for greater strength by the latest type Vibrating Cement Screeder.
1991 Constr. Weekly Products Suppl. Sept. 5 (advt.) The Revolutionary ‘Bunyan’ Striker Tube levels concrete fast... Flatter slabs—less ripples, bumps and hollows than conventional screeders.
2001 Wallaces Farmer Dec. 22/1 ‘We built a self-propelled power screeder when we poured a 30-foot concrete apron at the feedlot,’ John notes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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