tormenter, tormentor, teaser
(noun) a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings
tormentor, tormenter, persecutor
(noun) someone who torments
Source: WordNet® 3.1
tormentor (plural tormentors)
One who torments; a person, animal, or object that causes suffering.
(archaic) A person delegated to torture prisoners.
(figuratively) Something abstract that causes suffering.
(theatre) One of a pair of narrow curtains just behind the front curtain and teaser that mask the areas on the sides of the stage and can be adjusted to the desired width.
An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels.
(obsolete, nautical) A long meat-fork.
• (person delegated to torture prisoners): torturer
Source: Wiktionary
Tor*ment"or, n.
1. One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures. Jer. Taylor. Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings. Milton.
2. (Agric.)
Definition: An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels. Hebert.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 January 2025
(verb) conform one’s action or practice to; “keep appointments”; “she never keeps her promises”; “We kept to the original conditions of the contract”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee press is 230 cm (7 ft 6 in) in height and 72 cm (2 ft 4 in) in diameter and was created by Salzillo Tea and Coffee (Spain) in Murcia, Spain, in February 2007. The cafetière consists of a stainless steel container, a filtering piston, and a superior lid.
