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TESTERS
Noun
testers
plural of tester
Anagrams
• restest, retests, setters, streets, tersest
Proper noun
Testers
plural of Tester
Anagrams
• restest, retests, setters, streets, tersest
Source: Wiktionary
TESTER
Tes"ter, n. Etym: [OE. testere a headpiece, helmet, OF. testiere, F. têtière a head covering, fr. OF. teste the head, F. tête, fr. L. testa an earthen pot, the skull. See Test a cupel, and cf. Testière.]
1. A headpiece; a helmet. [Obs.] The shields bright, testers, and trappures. Chaucer.
2. A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb. Oxf. Gross.
3. A canopy over a bed, supported by the bedposts. No testers to the bed, and the saddles and portmanteaus heaped on me to keep off the cold. Walpole.
Tes"ter, n. Etym: [For testern, teston, fr. F. teston, fr. OF. teste the head, the head of the king being impressed upon the coin. See Tester a covering, and cf. Testone, Testoon.]
Definition: An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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