trimmer

Meanings

Adjective

• Comparative form or more of trim

Noun

• One who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments.
• A device used to trim.
• A member of the crew who trims the sails.
• Someone who fluctuates between opposing factions, political parties etc., according to current interest, a flip-flopper.
• A beam into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys.
• A person employed to rearrange the coal in the hold of a vessel, so that it fills the vessel without forming a conical blockage.
• A device for storing coal in gradually increasing piles made by building up at the point of the cone or top of the prism.
• A float bearing a baited hook and line, used in fishing for pike.
• One who or that which trims, or rebukes or reproves; a scold.

Origin

• From trim + -er.