Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which parts or separates.
  • noun A finer; a purifier of gold and silver: so called because, by fire and water, the gold or silver was ‘parted’ from baser metals.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or which, parts or separates.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun informal, only, in combination A work in a specified number of parts.
  • noun That which parts.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

part (“noun”) +‎ -er

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part (“verb”) +‎ -er (“agent suffix”)

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