Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that bleaches or is used in bleaching.
  • noun An often unroofed outdoor grandstand for seating spectators.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who bleaches; one whose occupation is to whiten cloth.
  • noun A vessel used in bleaching.
  • noun A large shallow wooden tub, lined with metal, used in distilling petroleum; a settling-tub.
  • noun Same as bleachery, 2.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten, by bleaching.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who, or that which, bleaches.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a worker who bleaches (cloth or flour etc.)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Sense 2, from comparing a person's exposure to the sun when sitting on them with the exposure of linens bleaching on a clothesline.]

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bleach +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Sat next to Rep. Lewis in bleacher seats at a not so well-attended talk given by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend about her dad.

    Matthew Yglesias » Glenn Beck Denounces Civil Rights Activist John Lewis For Comparing Himself to Civil Rights Activist John Lewis 2010

  • Here's a video of Aaron hitting 715 and a great post on a sports blog called the bleacher report ..

    Chicagoray's Views and News 2009

  • The oil having been allowed to settle all night, the litharge solution is drawn off, and the oil run into a shallow tank or "bleacher," where it is exposed to the light to improve its color, and is, if necessary, steamed to drive off the lighter hydrocarbons and raise the flashing point to the legal minimum of 95° F.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 Various

  • Your local youth league could use your "bleacher" expertise! lol

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News 2009

  • Your local youth league could use your "bleacher" expertise! lol

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News 2009

  • Pyrasulfotole is a "bleacher," meaning it shuts down the photosynthetic pathway of weeds, rendering the plant defenseless against sunlight.

    High Plains Journal 2008

  • Pyrasulfotole is a "bleacher," meaning it shuts down the photosynthetic pathway of weeds, rendering the plant defenseless against sunlight.

    High Plains Journal 2008

  • Gleacher, which is pronounced like bleacher, will now focus on building and hiring in areas where it sees it already has a competitive advantage, including mortgage securities, mortgage origination, and advice and capital raising for companies in the real estate, financial services, aerospace and defense, general industrial, and financial-sponsor sectors.

    Boutique Bank Gleacher Shuts Stock-Trading Unit Liz Moyer 2011

  • In one of the neighborhoods I lived in there was a classic corner candy store, one that had a long formica counter flanked by revolving red-topped stools; behind the counter was perched a sea-green malted mixer, a bleacher stacked with Neccos, Chuckles, B-B Bats and Yoo-Hoos, a large tarnished griddle upon which hamburger patties and home fries hissed and popped, and the whole space seemingly lit in sepia.

    Steven Weber: In a Sense, Abroad Part Trois: I's Real, Oy! Steven Weber 2011

  • In one of the neighborhoods I lived in there was a classic corner candy store, one that had a long formica counter flanked by revolving red-topped stools; behind the counter was perched a sea-green malted mixer, a bleacher stacked with Neccos, Chuckles, B-B Bats and Yoo-Hoos, a large tarnished griddle upon which hamburger patties and home fries hissed and popped, and the whole space seemingly lit in sepia.

    Steven Weber: In a Sense, Abroad Part Trois: I's Real, Oy! Steven Weber 2011

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