depositor
(dɪˈpɒzɪtə(r))
[In form = L. dēpositor, agent-n. from L. dēpōnĕre (depone, depose); but taken as agent-n. from deposit v.: so mod.F. dépositeur, connected in sense with dépôt deposit.]
I. One who deposes.
† 1. One who makes a deposition, a deponent.
| 1565 Sir T. Smith Commw. Eng. (1623) 196 That all men may hear from the mouth of the depositors and witnesses what is said. |
II. One who or that which deposits.
2. One who deposits or places something in charge of another; spec. one who deposits money in a bank.
| 1624 T. Scott Votivæ Angliæ 26 Bavaria is but Spaines Depositor, and the King of Spayne, Bavaria's Patrone and protector. 1781 Sir W. Jones Law of Bailments Wks. 1799 VI. 679 A depositor shall carefully enquire into the character of his intended depositary. 1832 Examiner 551/2 All persons were entitled to become depositors of goods. 1835 Penny Cycl. III. 385/2 Where a depositor has..a drawing account, the balance is struck every six months. 1880 Muirhead Gaius Digest 486 The deposit still left the legal possession in the depositor, the depositary being merely his agent in possessing. |
3. a. An apparatus for depositing some substance. b. A workman who coats articles with silver in electro-plating.
| 1834 Brit. Husb. I. 264 A ‘depositor’, which consists merely of an addition to the coulter of any common plough by wings fixed in the beam. c 1865 G. Gore in Circ. Sc. I. 216/1 The depositor should provide a large number of pieces of copper wire..for suspending the..articles to be coated. |
III. † 4. One in whose hand something is deposited; = depositary n. 1. Obs.
| 1604 E. Grimstone Hist. Siege Ostend 145 That the sayd goods be put into the hands of the depositor of the armie. |