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noun

Timer n.

A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses, machinery, etc.

(Internal-combustion Engines) In electric ignition, an adjustable device for automatically timing the spark.

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Etymology of 'Timer'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Timer" Quotes from Famous Books

... point of view—perhaps!" The chief frowned. "But it's the most distorted view of mercy I ever heard of. I'm an old-timer at the police business, but I wouldn't have had the courage or the heart to ...

— The Substitute Prisoner • Max Marcin

... valley he fortunately secured the services of Joe Blodgett, an old-timer in this region, as guide and scout, who proved a valuable acquisition to his forces. The General had been previously assured that it would be impossible to take his wagons over the high divide between the Bitter Root and Big Hole Rivers, and had decided to leave them at the foot of the mountains ...

— The Battle of the Big Hole • G. O. Shields

... old-timer. This is my job, and I don't reckon I'll let anybody else tackle it. Much obliged, just the same. You're ...

— The Big-Town Round-Up • William MacLeod Raine

... rhythm. The pronounced timer will feel it clearly; the extreme stresser will not. Change the ...

— The Principles of English Versification • Paull Franklin Baum

... prairies. He is temperamentally a man of Ontario, where he was born; solidly businesslike and persistent. He glorifies hard work. And he went West at a time when the law of hard work was just coming to replace the old-timer's creed of hanging on and waiting for something—usually a railway—to turn up. He came up with the farmer of 60-cent wheat in a part of the country where everything that the farmer had to buy in order to produce that kind of wheat ...

— The Masques of Ottawa • Domino

... it, old-timer" replied Bob. "I'm first in line, with orders to stick here and maintain my position at all hazards. I'll share the suit-case with you, but you mustn't try to crush ...

— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne

Words linked to "Timer" : governor, parking meter, egg timer, athletics, sport, chronograph, regulator, old-timer, stopwatch, two-timer, timepiece, time, official, horologe, stop watch, timekeeper, part-timer