screener
(ˈskriːnə(r))
[f. screen v. + -er1.]
1. (See quot. 1816.)
| 1816 J. H. H. Holmes Coal Mines Durh. & Northumb. 247 Screeners, men employed to screen the coals, which descend an iron screen into the wagon, and suffer the small coal or culm to pass through. 1892 Daily News 21 Mar. 6/2 The screeners..who sift and load the coal at the pit bank. |
2. In other senses of the verb (see quots.).
| 1913 Dialect Notes IV. 57 Screener, a person who ‘screens’ cranberries. 1951 Sun (Baltimore) 24 Dec. (B ed.) 13/2 Watch the defensive man as he hooks his arm around the screener and swings around [in Basketball]. 1967 D. Francis Blood Sport iv. 48 ‘A screener,’ he said. ‘How come Teller found you?’ 1977 Lancet 16 July 131/1 In 1974 McCarthy and Widmer calculated that screening by consultants of recommended elective surgical procedures could reduce the number of operations performed, with great savings in cost. Orthopædic, urological, and gynæcological surgical procedures were the ones most usually contested by a second opinion screener. |