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  • noun Plural form of erecter.

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Examples

  • They are great builders, erecters of monuments, raisers of grain, polygamists, and they now have a young Hebrew ruler, corresponding in every important respect with Joseph.

    Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner Ellsworth Douglass

  • The hunters, the searchers and the erecters of barriers that he had seen all through the day must be home by now, asleep, or about to retire.

    Slan Van Vogt, A. E. 1946

  • By this which we have already set down is seen the beginning and end of the three first monarchies of the world; whereof the founders and erecters thought, that they could never have ended.

    A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools Percy Lubbock 1922

  • Fitters and erecters, to do the rougher and heavier part of fitting the engines together.

    The Iron Horse 1859

  • Chemistry and medicine, released from the tedious but not useless apprenticeship they had served to alchemy and empiricism, set up on their own account, and as a consequence, the 'nut of the sea' soon lost its European reputation as a curative, though it was still considered a very great curiosity, and the unsettled problem of its origin formed a famous stock of building materials for the erecters of theoretical edifices.

    Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852 Various 1841

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