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tester

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test·er 1  (tstr)
n.
One that tests: a battery tester; a taste tester.
tes·ter 2  (tstr, tstr)
n.
A canopy, as over a bed or pulpit.
[Middle English, from Medieval Latin testrum, from Late Latin testa, skull, from Latin, shell.]
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Noun1.testertester - someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications
examiner, quizzer
asker, enquirer, inquirer, querier, questioner - someone who asks a question
2.tester - a flat canopy (especially one over a four-poster bed)
canopy - a covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather


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With our shaggy jackets drawn about our shoulders, we now passed the Tomahawk from one to the other, till slowly there grew over us a blue hanging tester of smoke, illuminated by the flame of the new-lit lamp.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
There was an inhospitable smell in the room, of cold soot and hot dust; and, as I looked up into the corners of the tester over my head, I thought what a number of blue-bottle flies from the butchers', and earwigs from the market, and grubs from the country, must be holding on up there, lying by for next summer.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
In removing the light towards the bedstead its rays fell upon the tester of white dimity; something was hanging beneath it, and she lifted the candle to see what it was.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
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