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noun

Chaser n.

One who or that which chases; a pursuer; a driver; a hunter.

(Naut.) Same as Chase gun, esp. in terms bow chaser and stern chaser. See under Bow, Stern.

Chaser n.

One who chases or engraves. See 5th Chase, and Enchase.

(Mech.) A tool with several points, used for cutting or finishing screw threads, either external or internal, on work revolving in a lathe.

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Etymology of 'Chaser'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Chaser" Quotes from Famous Books

... springy, hardened, swift, Able for perfect speed with perfect thrift, Man to the core yet moving like a lad. Dark honest eyes with merry gaze he had, A fine firm mouth, and wind-tan on his skin. He was to ride and ready to begin. He was to ride Right Royal, his own horse, In the English Chaser's Cup ...

— Right Royal • John Masefield

... carpet-slippers. With the morbid thirst of the confirmed daily news drinker, he awkwardly folded back the pages of an evening paper, eagerly gulping down the strong, black headlines, to be followed as a chaser by the milder ...

— The Trimmed Lamp • O. Henry

... from their amazement, were coming on again now. Young Prescott's heart thumped hard. He was no popularity-chaser, but only the fellow who has been down hard, for a while, knows how good it is ...

— The High School Freshmen - Dick & Co.'s First Year Pranks and Sports • H. Irving Hancock

... of the starboard bow-chaser, one of the two long twenty-four-pounders on the forecastle. In time of action, the command of that iron Thalaba the Destroyer would devolve upon him. It would be his business to "train" it properly; to see it well ...

— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville

... cheerful lot. The Major, a quiet man, married and having left his wife home, would adapt himself to anything; but the Baron Captain, accustomed to leading a fast life, a patron of low resorts, a wild chaser of disreputable women, was furious at having been confined for the last three months to the obligatory chasteness of this out of ...

— Mademoiselle Fifi • Guy de Maupassant

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