scourer
1[ skouuhr-er, skou-er-er ]
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scourer2
[ skouuhr-er, skou-er-er ]
noun
a person who scours or ranges about.
(in the 17th and 18th centuries) a prankster who roamed the streets at night.
Origin of scourer
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How to use scourer in a sentence
A nation of reformers looks like a scourer of silver-plate—black all over and dingy, with making things white and brilliant.
Anima Poet | Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThis was done in vats, where the clothes were trodden and well worked by the feet of the scourer.
Museum of Antiquity | L. W. YaggyThe most efficient scourer is that which frees the wheat from the greatest amount of impurity with a minimum of abrasion.
To restore that to its pristine freshness might have daunted a professional scourer.
A Dixie School Girl | Gabrielle E. JacksonThe former made wooden bowls, and the latter was sometimes a scourer, or scout, Mid.
The Romance of Names | Ernest Weekley
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