Exhauster
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who exhausts or depletes.
"One of the most insignificant-looking men I ever saw then became the destroyer of nations, the leveller of mountains, the exhauster of the ocean."
- 2 Exhaust system.
"There is, however, another inconvenience which can only be remedied by the use of a second exhauster, viz., the loss of pressure after the passage of the gas through the washer--a loss resulting from the obstacle presented by this appliance to the steady flow of the gas."
- 3 A vacuum exhauster.
"Each engine also drives an exhauster to create the vacuum for operating the brake, which is applied by cylinders of standard pattern."
Example
More examples"One of the most insignificant-looking men I ever saw then became the destroyer of nations, the leveller of mountains, the exhauster of the ocean."
Etymology
From exhaust + -er.
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