dresser

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or…

   An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.

   • The pewter plates on the dresser / Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine.
   • But it went through her like a flash of hot fire when, in passing, he lurched against the dresser, setting the tins rattling, and clutched at the white pot knobs for support.
   • The other room was a kitchen, with an open fireplace, a safe, a dresser and a tin sink, with a tap from the tank outside.
2. 2

   An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers (bureau), often with a mirror.

3. 3

   One who dresses in a particular way.

   • He's a very snappy dresser.
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   1. 4

      A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).

      • The leading lady also went out of her way to congratulate the young neophyte effusively on her triumph—and then slapped her unfortunate dresser on very insufficient provocation; […]
   2. 5

      A servant to royalty etc. who helps them with tasks such as dressing.

      • In the Queen's coach are the Queen's stateroom and bathroom, the Royal Family lounge, lady-in-waiting's compartment and bathroom, and dresser's room.
   3. 6

      A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc.

      • On the very day that I had come to this conclusion, I was standing at the Criterion Bar, when someone tapped me on the shoulder, and turning round I recognized young Stamford, who had been a dresser under me at Bart's.
      • Boatmen and passengers — a Chinese assistant manager and a Tamil hospital dresser whom Crabbe had met before, two Malays of occupation undefined — helped Crabbe into the launch, but Vythilingam did not move, did not even seem to see.
   4. 7

      A football hooligan who wears designer clothing

      A football hooligan who wears designer clothing; a casual.

      • Because we were the first by a long way to turn trendy, we're still the only dressers in Scotland and our enemies were easily recognised: denims and DM's, skinheads and parkas.
   5. 8

      A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting.

   6. 9

      A mechanical device used in ore mills for dressing (e.g., comminution, sorting, sifting).

      • ore dresser
   7. 10

      A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.

   8. 11

      A kind of pick for shaping large coal.

   9. 12

      One who dresses or prepares stone.

      • At the dressing sheds the slate-dresser saws the blocks into various sizes and then splits the smaller units into sheets.
   10. 13

       A surname.

The neighborhood

• neighbordressing
• neighbordress-up