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Definition of Scourer
1. Noun. Someone who cleanses by scouring.
2. Noun. Someone who travels widely and energetically. "He was a scourer of the seven seas"
Definition of Scourer
1. n. One who, or that which, scours.
Definition of Scourer
1. Noun. A tool used to scour, usually used to clean cookwares. ¹
2. Noun. Agent noun of scour; a person who scours. ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete) A rover or footpad; a prowling robber. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scourer
1. one that scours [n -S] - See also: scours
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scourer
Literary usage of Scourer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise on Dyeing and Calico-printing; Including the Latest by Edward Andrew Parnell, Robert Macfarlane (1860)
"Indeed, the scourer should be a practical dyer, because he is often obliged ...
The scourer cleans, re-dyes, and tums out as new, the old garments sent to ..."
2. Reports of Cases Arising Upon Letters Patent for Inventions: Determined in by Samuel Sparks Fisher (1874)
"Shaw, therefore, would naturally be expected to limit his claim to a combination
in which a tight scourer formed one of the elements, as he has done by the ..."
3. Report on Vienna Bread by Eben Norton Horsford (1875)
"Folio wing the smut-machine, there has been introduced in some mills a scourer,
consisting of a stiff brush, against which and below, a grooved burr-stone ..."
4. The Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing, and Technical Terms: With a by Peter Lund Simmonds (1858)
"... a maker of to obtain heat, as turf, wood, coal, coke, artificial combustibles
lur heating purposes. FULLER, a scourer and cleanser of woollen cloths. ..."
5. Reports of Patent Cases Decided in the Circuit Courts of the United States by Hubert Ashley Banning, Henry Arden (1882)
"McNeal. be cleansed and separated passes through a hopper and a spout into the
scourer ; that, as the fan rotates, a blast passes upward between the shell ..."
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