Definition of Stabber

1. Noun. Someone who stabs another person.

Generic synonyms: Aggressor, Assailant, Assaulter, Attacker
Derivative terms: Stab, Stab

Definition of Stabber

1. n. One who, or that which, stabs; a privy murderer.

Definition of Stabber

1. Noun. One who, or that which, stabs. ¹

2. Noun. (nautical) A small marlinespike. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stabber

1. one that stabs [n -S] - See also: stabs

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stabber

sspe virus
sssh
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staB-cell
stab
stab culture
stab drain
stab in the back
stab neutrophil
stab wound
stabat mater
stabbable
stabbed
stabber (current term)
stabbers
stabbing
stabbingly
stabbings
stabboard
stabby
stabilate
stabilator
stabilators
stabile
stabiles
stabilimeter
stabilisation
stabilisations

Literary usage of Stabber

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Natural Gas Association of America by Natural Gas Association of America, Meeting (1916)
"If one goes back a couple of joints he can usually line the stabber up from that position. WRINKLE NO. 46. DUST AND SALT TRAP FOR HIGH PRESSURE LINES. ..."

2. Under Heaven's Brow: Pre-Christian Religious Tradition in Chuuk by Ward Hunt Goodenough (2002)
"... symptoms: fever, chills, watery eyes, runny nose. woos 'stabber' (a class of male sea spirits), specific members named according to symptoms caused as ..."

3. Under Heaven's Brow: Pre-Christian Religious Tradition in Chuuk by Ward Hunt Goodenough (2002)
"... symptoms: fever, chills, watery eyes, runny nose. woos 'stabber' (a class of male sea spirits), specific members named according to symptoms caused as ..."

4. Essays on Wheat: Including the Discovery and Introduction of Marquis Wheat by Arthur Henry Reginald Buller (1919)
"He then pulls out the stabber from the grain in which it has been immersed, ... The wheat was then poured out of a stabber through its open handle, ..."

5. Melusine by George Ernle (1908)
"With eyes as when a stabber lifts his dead, Her huddled and heaped beauty the boy bore And laid it on a bed and moaned o'er Till her lids gave up a little ..."

6. Proceedings by Natural Gas Association of America (1916)
"... jaw on other half and pull reins together. If there be any slack within reasonable distance this will get it. WRINKLE NO. 45. LINING UP THE stabber IN ..."

7. Essays on Wheat: Including the Discovery and Introduction of Marquis Wheat by Arthur Henry Reginald Buller (1919)
"When the pointed end of the stabber has reached the bottom of the car, the upper end ... He then pulls out the stabber from the grain in which it has been ..."

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