squeezern.
/ˈskwiːzə/, U.S. /ˈskwizər/ 1. One who squeezes, in various senses.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > pressing, pressure, or squeezing > [noun] > one who presses, squeezes, etc.
pincher1368
niper1440
crusher1598
squeezer1611
thronger1648
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Pressoireur, a pressor, strainer, squeezer of iuyce, or liquor, out of things.
1679 T. Jordan London in Luster 16 In that Scene below, I saw a fellow carried in a throng of Squeezers, upon Men's backs like a Pageant for the space of thirty Yards.
1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) iv. xxxii. 136 Grinders and Squeezers of Livings.
1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 3 518 Item, 7 sitters, or rather squeezers, in the inside.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 178 ‘Aye,’ rejoined the squeezer of lemons, ‘poor Sidney!’
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 466 The moulds..are kept dry..so that the squeezer can often separate his work from them readily.
1894 Daily News 17 Feb. 5/4 Though the patrician ‘squeezers’ of the Coreans cannot apparently be ‘mended’ [etc.].
2. † a. A crowded assembly; a squeeze. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > of people or animals > regarded as a whole or a body of people gathered > large or numerous > densely packed together
threatc950
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thring?c1225
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throngc1330
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push1718
munga1728
mampus?c1730
squeezer1756
squeeze1779
crush1806
cram1810
parrock1811
mass1814
scrouge1839
squash1884
1756 F. Brooke Old Maid No. 16. 92 The day after my arrival, I went to the countess of ——s Squeezer, where I was sure of meeting her.
b. slang. The hangman's rope; the noose.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > gallows > parts of > noose or rope
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tether?a1513
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Tyburn tippet1549
John Roper's window1552
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noose1567
horse-nightcap1593
tow1596
Tyburn tiffany1612
piccadill1615
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Tyburn piccadill1620
necklacea1625
squinsy1632
Welsh parsley1637
St. Johnston's riband1638
string1639
Bridport daggera1661
rope's end1663
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death cord1804
neckclothc1816
St. Johnston's tippet1816
death rope1824
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yard-rope1850
necktie1866
Tyburn string1882
Stolypin's necktie1909
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1836 F. Mahony Rel. Father Prout II. 115 For Larry was always the lad, When a friend was condemned to the squeezer.
c. A squeezing pressure.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > pressing, pressure, or squeezing > [noun] > a press or squeeze
thrutchc1400
squeeze1611
squeezer1822
1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 101 Give the lemons a squeezer.
3.
a. A mechanical device or apparatus, an implement, by which pressure can be applied. Also attributive.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering dimensions > [noun] > press
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press1674
presser1740
squeezer1839
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 133 The squeezing rollers or squeezers, for discharging the greater part of the water from the yarns and goods in the process of bleaching.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 233 The piece is drawn through by a pair of squeezer cylinders at the end of the trough.
1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 919 This machine has also two squeezers for moulding pieces of iron when red-hot to the particular forms of the dies.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) III. 327/1 A scraper or ‘squeezer’, made by securing a slip of india-rubber between two slips of wood.
b. spec. An apparatus by which a ball of puddled iron is reduced to a compact mass.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > for pressing puddled ball
squeezer1843
shingler1864
crocodile squeezer1884
1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 187 The shingling is sometimes performed by large squeezers, something like huge pliers.
1868 F. H. Joynson Metals in Constr. 74 The loupes are then removed successively from the furnace, and placed either under the hammer or squeezer.
1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 60 Drilling-machines, punchers, squeezers, shearers, all of mighty size.
4. Usually plural. A playing-card which has its value indicated in one or two corners, so that a player may ascertain his hand while holding the cards closely arranged. (Apparently originally used in poker, but now standard.)
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > card of specific design
squeezer1876
transformation card1931
1876 Paper & Printing Trades Jrnl. Sept. 8/1 The ‘Squeezers’ Playing Cards introduced by Messrs. Lawrence Brothers..are rapidly rising in popular estimation.
1888 Amer. Humorist 15 Sept. 3/1 The editor picked up his hand, slid the squeezers past his good eye, and began to softly whisper the ‘Pirate King’.
1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms Squeezers, playing cards, more generally known in England as American squeezers. Their peculiarities are, rounded corners, a smaller and handier size, with the suit and value marked in the right-hand corner.
1906 G. Frankau X.Y.Z. of Bridge 47 Horatius in a long frock-coat Rending two ‘squeezer’ packs.
1930 C. P. Hargrave Hist. Playing Cards xiii. 345 The New York Consolidated Card Company..issued indexed cards..under the name of ‘Squeezers’.
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