circulator

[ sur-kyuh-ley-ter ]

noun

1. a person who moves from place to place.
2. a person who circulates money, information, etc.
3. a talebearer or scandalmonger.
4. any of various devices for circulating gases or liquids.
5. Obsolete. a mountebank.

Word History and Origins

Origin of circulator¹

1600–10; < Latin circulātor itinerant vendor who gathers a circle of people round himself ( circulate, -tor ); later as circulate + -or ²

Example Sentences

Hill, the circulator of the Post, caused the arrest of five of the little fellows and they were locked up.

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Controls are all in place and wired at the factory except connection to circulator.

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We next examine 47, and find that it gives us the full period circulator, in 46 figures, at the beginning of this article.

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He captured me as I emerged from the "penny-circulator" with my thumb in a book.

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So now I have gas fires in all the rooms and a gas circulator and a gas cooker.

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