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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
plural acrobats
An athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination, often as part of a circus performance. examples
third-person singular simple present acrobats, present participle acrobating, simple past and past participle acrobated
To practise acrobatics. quotations examples
Tumbling is different from posturing, and means throwing summersets and walking on your hands; and acrobating means the two together […]
1861, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 3, London: Griffin, Bohn, page 98
They seem to think as clowning and acrobating is a downright paradise, and comes as naturally to anybody as the measles.
1882, “Floey and the Angels”, in The Quiver, volume 17, page 31
Mother was teaching me the tight-rope; I’d learned a bit of acrobating, too.
1914, Owen Johnson, chapter 21, in The Salamander, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, page 317
The others were fairly hulking teenagers in terrible costumes and makeup, who tapped, acrobated, sang, recited, played saxoophones, and did bad magic […]
1988, Phyllis Newman, chapter 2, in Just In Time, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 32
(figurative) To move like an acrobat (with agility, balance, long leaps, etc.). quotations examples
We have known […] veteran reporters, so dumbfounded and confounded by the first fire of Ralph, and his grand and lofty acrobating in elocution, that they up, seized their hat and paper, and sloped, horrified at the prospect of an attempt to “take down” Mr. Emerson.
1856, Jonathan F. Kelley, “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, in Humors of Falconbridge,, Philadelphia: T.B.Peterson, page 155
[…] I laughed at the very idea of one of those heavy-pouched, blue-clad fellows catching hold of an agile fellow like I was, who had on more than one occasion acrobated from the engine’s tender back to the rear end of the caboose, by swinging and vaulting from truck to truck, underneath long freight trains running at top speed, with no member of the ever-alert train crew having discovered him.
1912, Leon Ray Livingston, chapter 2, in The Curse of Tramp Life, Cambridge: Springs, PA: The A-N. 1 Publishing Co, page 17
He acrobated into a shirt, pulled up the pants of his good suit, arching to draw them high […]
1952, Bernard Malamud, “Pre-Game”, in The Natural, New York: Dell, published 1965, page 8
Here [in the stage show] was all the paraphernalia I longed for—slit skirts, suntanned thighs, boleros, sequins, saucy looks, legs askew and whole bevies of girls acrobating gracefully while covering their more pertinent parts with fans or gigantic powder puffs.
1976, Edna O’Brien, chapter 6, in Mother Ireland,, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 127
the blood-red cardinal acrobating about in his holly bush
2011, Bradford Morrow, “Gardener of Heart”, in The Uninnocent,, New York: Pegasus Books, page 31