affixern.
/əˈfɪksə/, U.S. /əˈfɪksər/ A person who or thing which affixes or attaches something.
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1568 in J. Hosack Mary Queen of Scots (1869) I. 539 In the parliament she set furth ane act aganis the affixers of the saidis placardis.
1600 J. Colville Palinod sig. B5 These three witnesses were the Lord Paget, Sir Edmond Montague Knight cheef Iustice, and the said William Clerk affixer of the seale as is aforesaid.
1655 J. Lightfoot Harmony New-Test. 117 The affixer of the postscript hath gathered some ground to date it thence.
1702 Act Privy Council (Edinb.) 16 Mar. (single sheet) The same in this interim shall be appended and affixed..with this Remark by the Appender and Affixer at the appending.
1811 E. A. Kendall Pocket Encycl. (ed. 2) I. 82 The Saxon custom of affixing the sign of the cross, whether the affixer could write or otherwise.
1860 W. White All round Wrekin (ed. 2) xix. 192 The sticking on is done with a speed that would astonish the affixers of postage stamps.
1910 Pop. Mech. Apr. 500/1 The new stamp affixer shown in this illustration is apparently very simple and certain in operation.
1961 Chitty's Law Jrnl. 10 15/1 When a chattel was affixed to the freehold in circumstances that left the affixer the right of removal, the chattel retained its ‘character of chattel’.
2010 Star-Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 23 Sept. 1 b Nye gets to work affixing nutrition labels onto plastic bags... ‘Trying to get a boyfriend?’ asks fellow affixer, Diane Fulling.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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