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Definition of Rescuer

1. Noun. A person who rescues you from harm or danger.

2. Noun. Someone who saves something from danger or violence.

Definition of Rescuer

1. n. One who rescues.

Definition of Rescuer

1. Noun. a person who rescues someone or something ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rescuer

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rescuer

rescue rescue dog rescue dogs rescue equipment rescue mission rescue missions rescue operation rescue party rescue work rescued

rescuee rescuees rescueless rescueman rescuemen rescuer (current term) rescuers rescues rescuing resculpt

resculpted resculpting resculpts resculpture resculptured resculptures resculpturing rescussor rescussors reseal

Literary usage of Rescuer

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

1. The U. S. Coal Industry, 1970-1990: Two Decades of ChangeTechnology (1994)
"It is important for the rescuer to be aware of the head position of the victim. ... Therefore, if the rescuer can induce the victim to keep the head in the ..."

2. The Law Relating to Oil and Gas: Including Oil and Gas Leases and Contracts by William Wheeler Thornton (1904)
"rescuer injured by negligence of an oil or gas company. To render an oil or gas company liable to one who has been injured in attempting to rescue one ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"According to this, a terrible dragon had ravaged all the country already in the dragon's clutches, while an abbot stands by and blesses the rescuer. ST. ..."

4. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"Lamb a rescuer of persons and things forgotten. Char- actor-portraits ; method of the old humourists. VI. Lamb's debt to eighteenth-century prose; ..."

5. The Life of Leonard Wood by John Gunnlaugur Holme (1920)
"THE rescuer OP SANTIAGO IN ALL of history there is no parallel to the service ... But the rescuer generally has remained as sovereign or has demanded and ..."

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