reˈplenisher
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
1. One who replenishes or refills.
| 1599 Hakluyt Voy. I. 378 One God euerlasting,..replenisher of all things euery where. 1864 Pusey Lect. Daniel iii. 136 The contribution..in times of peace, of eunuchs and replenishers of the Persian harems. 1892 Chamb. Jrnl. 14 May 307/1 The Finisher of delights, and the Replenisher of tombs. |
2. Electr. A device for increasing or maintaining a charge in certain apparatus.
| 1867 in Dredge Electr. Illum. (1882) I. App. cxxv, An auxiliary generator, termed a replenisher. 1881 Sir W. Thomson in Nature XXIV. 435 My ‘replenisher’ for multiplying and maintaining charges in Leyden jars for heterostatic electrometers. |