Definitions

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  • noun One who numbers.

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  • noun One who numbers.

Etymologies

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number +‎ -er

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Examples

  • When he arrived, the numbers were being taken, and he, even he, Mr. Whip Vigil, he the great arch-numberer, was excluded from the number of the counted.

    The Three Clerks 2004

  • Before he became famous as a tobacconist, Hardham was, by night, a numberer of the pit for Garrick at Drury Lane.

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

  • A simple outfit - consisting of penholder and pen, a spring-clamp and a blotter-pad - was handed to the new employee and, by grace of her oath of allegiance to the young Confederacy, she was henceforth known in the small world of the Treasury building as a "Note-signer," or a "Bond-numberer."

    War-time sketches : historical and otherwise, Adelaide Stuart Dimitry 1911

  • Vigil, he the great arch-numberer, was excluded from the number of the counted.

    The Three Clerks Anthony Trollope 1848

  • What answer was returned to it by him who is indeed the numberer of secrets, and knows things to come.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

  • He is the numberer of secrets (as some translate it), for from him there is nothing hidden -- the wonderful numberer, so others; his name is called

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

  • Using PDF page numberer software, all corporate clients can represent their concern in a systematic way through efficient PDF bates stamping.

    hotlib.com - New Releases and Updates in All Categories 2010

  • student credit cards for people with bad credit numberer nationalizes diffusions:astringency:homogeneous balkanized!

    The Volokh Conspiracy » More on the Harper’s error: 2004

  • Herald of our summer, she glances through our days of gladness; numberer of our years, she would teach us to apply our hearts to wisdom; -- and yet, so little have we regarded her, that this very day, scarcely able to gather from all I can find told of her enough to explain so much as the unfolding of her wings, I can tell you nothing of her life -- nothing of her journeying: I cannot learn how she builds, nor how she chooses the place of her wandering, nor how she traces the path of her return.

    Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859

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