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Trimmer

noun

1.

A worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs. Synonym: pruner.

2.

A machine that trims timber.

3.

Capacitor having variable capacitance; used for making fine adjustments. Synonym: trimming capacitor.

4.

Joist that receives the end of a header in floor or roof framing in order to leave an opening for a staircase or chimney etc.. Synonym: trimmer joist.

Trim

adjective

(compar. trimmer; superl. trimmest)

1.

Thin and fit. Synonym: spare. "A body kept trim by exercise"

2.

Of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder. Synonyms: shipshape, well-kept. "A trim little sailboat"

3.

Neat and smart in appearance. Synonyms: clean-cut, trig. "The trig corporal in his jaunty cap" , "A trim beard"

4.

Severely simple in line or design. Synonym: tailored. "Tailored curtains"

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"Trimmer" Quotes from Famous Books

... authors of that poem, two Unknown gentlemen, respectively named Grungers and Scadgingtone. And Prince Arthur, nephew of King John of England, had described himself as tolerably comfortable in the seventh circle, where he was learning to paint on velvet, under the direction of Mrs. Trimmer and ...

— The Signal-Man #33 • Charles Dickens

... I meet them in the Forest, and they all seem fond of Argus. I'm sure you have made them extremely polite, Miss Pierson. I shall be very pleased to come to your school-feast, Mrs. Scobel; and I'll tell our good old Trimmer to make ...

— Vixen, Volume I. • M. E. Braddon

... to Macaulay by his defect of fervour as a Williamite. As for the moderns, I have myself more than once failed to induce editors of 'series' to give Halifax a place. Yet Macaulay himself has been fairer to the great Trimmer than to most persons with whom he was not in full sympathy. The weakness of Halifax's position is indeed obvious. When you run first to one side of the boat and then to the other, you have ten chances of sinking to ...

— Political Pamphlets • George Saintsbury

... importunities for which he had as yet no reply, and he was enabled to slip within, where he found himself in a place of almost absolute quiet. Before him lay a basement hall leading to a kitchen, which, even at that moment, he noticed to be in trimmer condition than is usual where much housework is done, but he saw nothing that bespoke tragedy, or even a break in the ordinary routine of life as observed in houses ...

— The Circular Study • Anna Katharine Green

... to be that on a Saturday evening the Young Gent would draw down his six dollars worth of salary and chase himself to the barber shop, where the Bolivian lawn trimmer would put a crimp in his mustache and plaster his forehead with three cents worth of hair and a dollar's ...

— You Should Worry Says John Henry • George V. Hobart

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