Tester

Quick meaning: Tester is a noun meaning A canopy over a bed.

Meaning

A canopy over a bed.

More Meanings

1. Something that overhangs something else; especially a canopy or soundboard over a pulpit.
2. A person who administers a test.
3. A device used for testing.
4. (Australia, slang, obsolete) A punishment of 25 lashes (strokes of a whip) across a person′s back.
5. A sample of perfume available in a shop for customers to try before they buy.
6. A miniature pot of paint for testing and comparison purposes.
7. (cycling) A cyclist who focuses on success in time trials.

Example Sentences

The tester and crupper, together with the piser, which probably protected the chest, formed the basis of most horse armour[…]

With our shaggy jackets drawn about our shoulders, we now passed the Tomahawk from one to the other, till slowly there grew over us a blue hanging tester of smoke, illuminated by the flame of the new-lit lamp.

A horse-head tester had cutouts for the animal's eyes and ears. A peytral protected the horse's breast, while the crinet, made of overlapping steel plates joined by leather straps or rivets, protected its neck.

And I could as hardly spare my gloves as my shirt, or forbeare washing of my hands both in the mornng and rising from the table, or lye in a bed without a testerne and curtaines about it, as of most necessary things.

Word Forms

• testers

Synonyms for tester

Depending on context, synonyms include teston, tizzy, examiner.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include examiner, canopy, meter, pilot, gauge, manometer.

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