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plural loaders
Agent noun of load; a person or device that loads. quotations examples
A loader performs the important work of storing goods in the wagons and of unloading the wagons. In each case considerable skill is required to avoid breakage, and, in the case of loading, skill goes far to conserve wagon space.
1944 March and April, T. F. Cameron, “The Working of Marshalling Yards and Goods Sheds”, in Railway Magazine, page 85
The loader […] placed the cartridge in the muzzle and shoved it in as far as he could. The rammer rammed it home, the gun captain inserting his priming wire to make sure.
2014, Benerson Little, The Sea Rover's Practice
(computing) A program that prepares other programs for execution. examples
A tractor with a scoop, for example: front-end loader, front loader, endloader, payloader, bucket loader, wheel loader, etc. examples
(marketing) An incentive given to a dealer. quotations examples
Unique point-of-purchase materials and display loaders dramatically contribute to the display's attention-getting ability.
1990, Robert B. Konikow, Sales Promotion Design, page 197
Marketers use dealer loaders to obtain new distributors and push larger quantities of goods.
1995, William M. Pride, O. C. Ferrell, Marketing: Concepts and Strategies, page 591
Dealer (or buying) loaders are gifts offered to resellers for stocking products. Many companies specialize in providing premium and gift items, and publish catalogues from which you can select appropriate items.
2001, Stuart Clark Rogers, Marketing Strategies, Tactics, and Techniques, page 172
third-person singular simple present accosts, present participle accosting, simple past and past participle accosted
(transitive) To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request. examples
(transitive, obsolete) To join side to side; to border.
(by extension, transitive, obsolete) To sail along the coast or side of.
(transitive, obsolete) To approach; to come up to. quotations
You mistake, knight. ‘Accost’ is front / her, board her, woo her, assail her.
c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, act 1, scene 3, lines 53–54
(transitive) To speak to first; to address; to greet. quotations examples
Him, Satan thus accosts.
1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost, line 653
She approached the basin, and bent over it as if to fill her pitcher; she again lifted it to her head. The personage on the well-brink now seemed to accost her; to make some request—"She hasted, let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him to drink."
1847, Charlotte Bronte, chapter XVIII, in Jane Eyre
I quickly followed suit, and descending into the bar-room accosted the grinning landlord very pleasantly.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 5, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley
(intransitive, obsolete) To adjoin; to lie alongside. quotations
For all the Shores, which to the Sea accost
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V”, in The Faerie Queene, canto 2, stanza XLII
Lapland hath since been often surrounded (so much as accosts the sea) by the English.
1662, Thomas Fuller, “Derby-shire”, in History of the Worthies of England
(transitive) To assault. quotations examples
Surveillance video of the incident shows the man and woman being accosted by a man armed with and assault-style handgun.
2017 June 21, Glenn E. Rice, “Police seek two gunmen who accosted Kansas City couple”, in The Kansas City Star
The Missouri prosecutors' case against Clemons, based partly on incriminating testimony given by his co-defendants, was that Clemons was part of a group of four youths who accosted the sisters on the Chain of Rocks Bridge one dark night in April 1991.
2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian
(transitive) To solicit sexually. quotations examples
Gladstone's initial tone of disinterested philanthropy also characterized his first encounters with prostitutes in London once he has moved there to undertake his parliamentary duties. Accosted in a London park in 1837 by two women, Gladstone merely reported of them that "both ... had taken to their miserable calling from losing their livelihood by the death of their husbands."
1997, Travis L. Crosby, The Two Mr. Gladstones
plural accosts
(rare) Address; greeting. quotations
A man does not seize a woman by the sleeve and ask, "Is it you?" without some reason for an address so destitute of ordinary courtesy; and Lucilla was sufficiently versed in such matters to know that so rude and startling an accost could be only addressed to some one whose presence set the speaker's heart beating, and quickened the blood in his veins.
1866, Margaret Oliphant, chapter XXIII, in Miss Marjoribanks (Chronicles of Carlingford)
Anne liked to accost foreigners in their own tongue , but , being ignorant of Spanish , asked M. de Grignaux to teach her a sentence of polite accost in his own language, wherewith to welcome an ambassador from Spain.
1871, Henry Morley, Clement Marot
Great was my amazement to find the unconquerable Mr. Sim thaw immediately on the accost of this strange gentleman, who hailed him with a ready familiarity, proceeded at once to discuss with him the trade of droving and the prices of cattle, and did not disdain to take a pinch from the inevitable ram's horn.
1897, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Drovers”, in St. Ives
An attack. quotations examples
At last, when I was already within reach of her, I stopped. Words were denied me; if I advanced I could but clasp her to my heart in silence; and all that was sane in me, all that was still unconquered, revolted against the thought of such an accost.
1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Olalla”, in The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables