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Definition of Shrinker
1. n. One who shrinks; one who withdraws from danger.
Definition of Shrinker
1. Noun. Something that makes something else shrink. ¹
2. Noun. (slang) A psychiatrist; a head-shrinker. ¹
3. Noun. (medicine) An sock-like article used to compress a stump remaining after amputation. ¹
4. Noun. Something that itself shrinks. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shrinker
1. one that shrinks [n -S] - See also: shrinks
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shrinker
Literary usage of Shrinker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Popular Mechanics Shop Notes (1920)
"All parts for this shrinker may be made in the shop or taken from a machine ...
With the use of a tire shrinker of this character it is possible to remove ..."
2. Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives by United States Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture (1922)
"A hog shrinker is this: Here is a carload of hogs comes off the scale. ...
Well, do you have a hog shrinker except when there is a controversy'. ..."
3. Practical Blacksmithing by Milton T. Richardson (1891)
"96—Tire shrinker, Contributed by " RE" clamp and drive home the keys and flatten
... By RE Tire shrinker. NO. 2. A tire shrinker, which I have invented and ..."
4. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"6481 Tire-shrinker. and the treadle relented, when the springs •/ •/' net tn ...
Jackson's Tirc-shrinker. T-Ir'on. A kind of angle-iron having a fiat flange ..."
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