chaser

Meaning

Noun

• A person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) that chases.
• A hunter.
• A horse: a horse used for hunting; a horse trained for steeplechasing, a steeplechaser.
• A drink drunk after another of a different kind.
• Someone that follows logs out of the forest in order to signal a yarder engineer to stop them if they become fouled .
• One who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing.
• A piece of music, etc. played after a performance while the audience leaves.
• One of a series of adjacent light bulbs that cycle on and off to give the illusion of movement.
• A long piece of flexible wire used to draw an electrical cable through a wall cavity.
• Synonym of prison chaser
• A person who seeks out sexual partners with a particular quality:
• In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player responsible for passing the quaffle and scoring goals with it.
• Someone who chases metal; a person who decorates metal by engraving or embossing.
• A tool used for cleaning out screw threads, either as an integral part of a tap or die to remove waste material produced by the cutting tool, or as a separate tool to repair damaged threads.
• A chase gun.

Origin

• From Middle English chaser, chacer, chasour, borrowed from Old French chaceür, chaceor, from chacier; later senses from or influenced by chase + -er. chasseur.
• From chase + -er.