trimmern.

1518–19 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 303 As towchyng the tabernacles, trymmers, is that a wourkman shall se them & he to shew his best advice in it.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxiij Vnder y^e trimmer, anticke images of gold.

1559 Dunmow Churchwardens' Accts. (MS) f. 42^v For making ii yrons and iiii staples for the trymmer over the rood, ii^d.

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. viii. 167 The yndians are..greate deckers and trimmers of them selues.

1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Racoustreur, a mender or trimmer of things.

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Afeytador A barber, a trimmer, a decker, tonsor, fucator, ornator.

1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 115 That man a trimmer of a garden of pleasure.

a1651 N. Culverwell Elegant Disc. Light of Nature (1652) i. xi. 109 He calls God..the Painter and trimmer of the soul.

1850 C. Kingsley Cheap Clothes & Nasty 17 If to the trimmer we return an answer that is considered ‘saucy’, we are fined 6d. or 1s.

1875 Guide Royal Porcelain Wks. 4 The trimmer..removes any superfluous glaze.

1879 Argus (Melbourne) 24 Dec. 2/1 Trimmers [coachmaking] get from £2 10s. to £3 10s. per week.

1891 Labour Commission Gloss. Trimmers, skilled workmen engaged in shaping and pressing hosiery goods.

1902 T. O'C. Sloane Standard Electr. Dict. App. (at cited word) The work of a lamp trimmer frequently includes cleaning the feed rod of the upper carbon with a cloth so as to ensure smooth action of the clutch.

1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. G8 What say you of the barbers, and trimmers of men?

1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. lv. 243 At the going out of the halls..were the perfumers and trimmers, through whose hands the gallants past.

1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. xliv. 41 Peregrine mentioned this assassination to his own trimmer.

1810 Sporting Mag. 35 263 The defendant's witnesses..described as croppers, dockers, nickers and trimmers [of horses].

1876 C. H. Spurgeon Commenting 4 Calvin..was no trimmer and pruner of texts.

1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 99/2 Trimmers' paste requires to be smooth,..and possessed of great adhesive qualities.

1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 364 With..the straight-edge to guide the knife or trimmer, cut first one side and then..the three others.

1654 in E. B. Jupp Carpenters' Co. (1887) 316 2 foote 9 inches from the backe of the Chimney to the Trimmer peece or binding Joyst.

1737 E. Hoppus Salmon's Country Builder's Estimator (ed. 2) 62 Remember to measure the Trimmers that support the Hearths taking the Length by the Girt of the Arching of them.

1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §234 Four-inch brick trimmer arches to be turned where required.

1897 F. C. Moore How to build Home iii. 32 ‘Trimmer’-beams enter the wall on each side of the chimney.

1897 F. C. Moore How to build Home viii. 113 All hearths shall be constructed with trimmer~arches extending 20 inches from the chimney-breast to a ‘skew back’.

1953 Archit. Rev. 114 364/1 With the exception of the assembly hall and gymnasia, which are on solid load-bearing walls, the structure is carried on reinforced raft foundations with ground trimmer beams at the edges.

1682 Character of a Trimmer 2 A Trimmer, one neither Whigg nor Tory, is a Hater of Anti-christ, an Abominator of Enthusiasm.

1683 J. Dryden & N. Lee Duke of Guise Epil. sig. A4^v We Trimmers are for holding all things even: Yes—just like him that hung 'twixt Hell and Heaven... You Trimmers shou'd, to poize it, hang on t'other.

1685 J. Evelyn Mem. 7 May Those whom (by way of hateful distinction) they call'd Whiggs and Trimmers.

1704 W. Shippen Faction Display'd xiv The Patriot's Soul disdains the Trimmer's Art.

1739 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) I. 183 Nor is it possible for all the trimmers between God and the world to elude the consequence.

1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) v. i. 260 He who wavers in seeking to do what is right gets stigmatized as a trimmer.

1879 T. Hardy Distracted Preacher in New Q. Mag. Apr. 325 One of the trimmers who went to church and chapel both.

1776 S. Foote Bankrupt iii. 64 Pep. Don't you think the public would bear one skirmish more..? I have a trimmer here in my hand. Plaist. To which I have as tart a retort.

1804 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VI. 163 I shall write the Dey of Algiers a trimmer.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xi. 240 I will shew you his last epistle, and the scroll of my answer—egad, it is a trimmer.

1827 Sporting Mag. 21 141 Amongst the young hounds I noticed some trimmers.

1828 Sporting Mag. 22 117 We found in Man Wood, and killed him [the fox] after a trimmer of fifty minutes.

1878 ‘Ironbark’ Southerly Busters 11 I thought thee a regular ‘trimmer’, I thought thee a generous man.

1882 Daily Tel. 17 May Mr. H. was clean bowled by a trimmer from Barnes.

1943 N. Marsh Colour Scheme v. 92 ‘Running well, isn't she [sc. a car]?’.. ‘She's a trimmer.’

1955 H. Drake-Brockman Men without Wives 83 It's that Rienzi. He's a trimmer. Always laring round. No good to girls.

1962 Coast to Coast 1961–2 21 ‘I know a sheila,’ Sonny began. ‘A real trimmer.’

1970 Private Eye 13 Mar. 16 Jeez Valda Clissold, cripes she was a real little trimmer.

1970 N.Z. Listener 12 Oct. 13/5 Dave, you're a trimmer. You'll go places. Take a top seat.

1836 G. Head Home Tour 331 These men called trimmers, whose business it is to level the cargo as it comes tumbling below.

1890 Sci. Amer. 7 June 360/1 The coal handling plant..may be resolved into three parts: The elevators..; the trimmers, which take the coal from the elevators and deposit it upon the heaps; and finally the reloaders.

1891 Labour Commission Gloss. Trimmers, men on board ship whose duty is to go into the coal bunkers of a vessel and to place the coals within reach of the fireman... When a ship is loading grain in bulk, the trimmers move the grain from the point under the hatchway to the ends of the ship.

1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth iv. 32 Their Masts and Trimmers ouerthrowne, their Cables cut.

1930 J. A. Moyer & J. F. Wostrel Pract. Radio Constr. (ed. 2) xviii. 331 ‘Trimmer’ condensers which are out of adjustment..will impair the quality of sound reproduction.

1939 H. J. Hicks Princ. & Pract. Radio Servicing ii. 21 C10, C11, C12 and C13 are the trimmer and padder condensers employed in the oscillator circuit to make it track with the r.f. tuning condenser.

1944 Electronic Engin. 16 362/2 This error can easily be compensated by the use of a two gang trimmer condenser across the two tuning condensers.

1965 Wireless World Sept. 422/2 The appropriate trimmer is first adjusted to give a low intermediate frequency.

1971 A. Margolis Mod. Radio Repair Techniques (1974) vi. 83 Usually, padder capacitors are found only in oscillator circuits. Trimmer capacitors are found in the RF circuits, mixer circuits and oscillator circuits.

1935 Aircraft Engineering Dec. 305/1 The effect of the trimmer on the drag of the whole tail must be kept in mind.

1947 A. C. Douglas Gliding & Adv. Soaring ii. 48 If the quick release is the one used for winching, usually below the thrust line, the machine may tend to ride high, necessitating a continual forward pressure on the stick. This may be tiring on long tows unless elevator trimmers are fitted.

1964 G. Lyall Most Dangerous Game ix. 62 Watching my hands wander round the cockpit, checking and setting... Trimmers to takeoff, throttle nut tensioned.

1870 Observer 9 Oct. 2/1 Trimmering, trolling, live bait fishing, spinning, fly fishing.

1888 G. M. Fenn Dick o' the Fens x. (heading) A trimmering expedition.

1953 A. Knapp Race your Boat Right iii. 48 The trimmer with only one turn on his winch trims hand over hand as the sail swings over.

1983 New Scientist 16 June 775/1 When that range [of winch gears] has run out of power, the trimmer bangs over a lever, and hits the first gear button again.

1988 Seahorse Sept.–Oct. 62/1 When the water is flat the trimmers can afford to really strap the rig down.