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Definition of Biter
1. Noun. Someone who bites.
Specialized synonyms: Nibbler
Derivative terms: Bite
Definition of Biter
1. n. One who, or that which, bites; that which bites often, or is inclined to bite, as a dog or fish.
Definition of Biter
1. Noun. Agent noun of bite; someone of something who bites. ¹
2. Noun. (curling) A stone that barely touches the outside of the house. ¹
3. Noun. (slang) One who plagiarizes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Biter
1. one that bites [n -S] - See also: bites
Medical Definition of Biter
1. 1. One who, or that which, bites; that which bites often, or is inclined to bite, as a dog or fish. "Great barkers are no biters." 2. One who cheats; a sharper. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Biter
Literary usage of Biter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Agriculturist (1846)
"If the horse be a biter out of the stable as well as in, then keep the ...
The crib-biter is so called because he seizes the manger (crib as it is called in ..."
2. The Life and Stories of the Jaina Savior, Pārçvanātha by Aristophanes, Bhāvadevasūri, Richard Thomas Elliott, William Joseph Myles Starkie (1919)
"34: biter bit. This is the popular fiction motif which may be designated, ‘biter
bit. ... Excellent ‘biter bit' stories are told in Jug, ..."
3. A Parody Anthology by Carolyn Wells (1904)
"THE biter BIT THE sun is in the sky, mother, the flowers are springing fair; And
the melody of woodland birds is stirring in the air; The river, ..."
4. The Green Fairy Book edited by Andrew Lang (1906)
"THE biter BIT ONCE upon a time there lived a man called Simon, who was very rich,
but at the same time as stingy and miserly as he could be. ..."
5. Contemporary French Novelists: And Other Tales from India by William Henry Denham Rouse, William Crooke, William Heath Robinson, René Doumic, Mary D. Frost (1922)
"... The Cunning Jackal Or, The biter Bit JACKAL lived on one side of a deep river,
and on the other side were fields upon fields ..."
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