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Definition of Stirrer

1. Noun. A person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble.

Definition of Stirrer

1. n. One who, or that which, stirs something; also, one who moves about, especially after sleep; as, an early stirrer.

Definition of Stirrer

1. Noun. A device used to stir. ¹

2. Noun. A person who stirs something. ¹

3. Noun. (slang) A person who spreads rumours or causes agitation. ¹

4. Noun. One who stirs or moves about, as after sleep. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stirrer

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stirrer

Literary usage of Stirrer

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

1. A Practical Treatise on Mineral Oils and Their By-products: Including a by Iltyd I. Redwood (1897)
"When the centrifugal stirrer is used, the agitator is usually greater in ... The centrifugal stirrer is very similar in construction to Seal* of Feet Fio. ..."

2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1918)
"But there was another addition in the reissue which, it is contended, enlarges the Invention and assigns a new shape and function to the stirrer of the ..."

3. Laboratory Exercises in Physical Chemistry by Frederick Hutton Getman (1904)
"(3) Loss of Heat to stirrer.—The water equivalent of the stirrer is ... It should be noted, however, that only that portion of the stirrer which is immersed ..."

4. Laboratory Exercises in Physical Chemistry by Frederick Hutton Getman (1908)
"(3) Loss of Heat to stirrer.—The water equivalent of the stirrer is ... It should be noted, however, that only that portion of the stirrer which is immersed ..."

5. Laboratory Exercises in Physical Chemistry by Frederick Hutton Getman (1908)
"(3) Loss of Heat to stirrer.—The water equivalent of the stirrer is ... It should be noted, however, that only that portion of the stirrer which is immersed ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... consisting of an ordinary rabble or some similar stirrer to which motion is communicated by machinery, in euch a way аз to move it (with some amount of ..."

7. Handbook of Metallurgy by Carl Schnabel (1905)
"4So. having an iron flange F, the stirrer proper A, and the traveller K suspended by the differential pulley LM. When the cover is let down into the bath Z, ..."

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