Searcher
['sɝtʃɚ]
Definition
(noun.) large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars; found in North America.
(noun.) a customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items.
Checker: Rita--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, searhes or examines; a seeker; an inquirer; an examiner; a trier.
(n.) Formerly, an officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death.
(n.) An officer of the customs whose business it is to search ships, merchandise, luggage, etc.
(n.) An inspector of leather.
(n.) An instrument for examining the bore of a cannon, to detect cavities.
(n.) An implement for sampling butter; a butter trier.
(n.) An instrument for feeling after calculi in the bladder, etc.
Checker: Noelle
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Seeker, explorer, examiner, inquirer, trier.
Edited by Annabel
Examples
- When we reached Scotland Yard she was handed over at once to the female searcher. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- In the left pocket we saw a huge silver chest, with a cover of the same metal, which we, the searchers, were not able to lift. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I kept, among other little necessaries, a pair of spectacles in a private pocket, which, as I observed before, had escaped the emperor's searchers. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
Editor: Michel