stiflern.
/ˈstʌɪflə/, /ˈstʌɪfl̩ə/, U.S. /ˈstaɪf(ə)lər/ a. One who or something which stifles, suffocates, smothers, suppresses, etc.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > crushing, stifling, or overwhelming > one who or that which
quenchera1382
hammer1382
suppresser1543
suppressor1560
quench-coal1615
pulverizer1635
stifler1642
smotherer1648
queller1804
overwhelmer1807
cold douche1835
squelcher1854
putter-down1869
steamroller1896
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > [noun] > one who
stifler1642
constrainer1709
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [noun] > of free action > one who
stifler1642
constrainer1709
1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. I7v You stiflers now be gone. Let fall that smoring mantle.
1829 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. 267 Lord-keeper Guildford was also a stifler of the proceedings against witches.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. viii. 126 My best affections have experienced this night a stifler!
1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such xviii. 347 We have to consider who are the stifled people and who the stiflers.
b. Thieves' slang. The gallows.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > gallows
gallowsOE
gallows-treea1000
warytre?a1200
gibbet?c1225
gallow-forka1250
forkc1275
juisec1320
forchesc1380
crossa1382
treec1425
patible1428
justice1484
potencec1500
haltera1533
turning-tree1548
potentc1550
three treesa1566
chates1567
mare1568
furel1587
bough1590
gibe1590
derrickc1600
hangrella1605
cross-tree1638
Gregorian tree1641
wooden horse1642
timber-marec1650
triple tree1651
furca1653
nubbing1673
a horse that was foaled of an acorn1678
nub1699
Tyburn tree1728
raven-stone1738
picture frame1785
crap1789
lamp-iron1790
Moll Blood1818
stifler1818
scragging-post1819
government signposta1828
leafless tree1830
shuggie-shue1836
doom-tree1837
stob1860–62
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 260 I think Handie Dandie and I may queer the stifler for all that is come and gone.
c. Military slang. = camouflet n. 1.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > land-mine
petard1566
powder minea1639
fougade1643
bomb-chest1704
caisson1704
globe of compression1771
torpedo1786
fougasse1832
stifler1836
landmine1875
observation mine1886
egg1917
1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 197/1 Camouflet, or Stifler.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.
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