Dismantler

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who dismantles.

    "Condemned to fall Were cornice, quoin, and cove, And all that art had wove in antique style. Among the hired dismantlers entered there One till the moment of his task untold. When charged therewith he gazed, and answered bold: "Be needy I or no, I will not help lay low a house so fair!"

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"Condemned to fall Were cornice, quoin, and cove, And all that art had wove in antique style. Among the hired dismantlers entered there One till the moment of his task untold. When charged therewith he gazed, and answered bold: "Be needy I or no, I will not help lay low a house so fair!"

Etymology

From dismantle + -er.

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