Definitions

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  • noun archaic tripper

Etymologies

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From fare (“to journey, travel”) +‎ -er.

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Examples

  • However.com, his moment are becoming farer and fewer between.

    IGD: Padres vs Mets (6 Jun 08) 2008

  • Then arose the Red Knight, and thrust me from him with the left hand, and strode over my fellow-farer and thrust his sword through his throat.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • Never you'll see one on the main roads or near towns; only back in the thicketty places, by high trails among tall ridges, and they show themselves there when it rains and storms and a lone farer hopes to come to a house to shelter him. ...

    Space Beastie -- the Gardinel 2005

  • Wikipedia has gone farer by saying that the water is “toxic”.

    Unthreaded #13 « Climate Audit 2007

  • Version 1 may be the correct one at higher altitudes, where molecules are fewer and farer between, and also colder so moving more slowly.

    Water Vapor Feedback « Climate Audit 2007

  • Never you'll see one on the main roads or near towns; only back in the thicketty places, by high trails among tall ridges, and they show themselves there when it rains and storms and a lone farer hopes to come to a house to shelter him. ...

    Space Beastie -- the Gardinel 2005

  • Never you'll see one on the main roads or near towns; only back in the thicketty places, by high trails among tall ridges, and they show themselves there when it rains and storms and a lone farer hopes to come to a house to shelter him. ...

    The Sudden Curve: 2005

  • Strikes me, that this is a case of someone putting words in the mouth of another in order to make it easier to dismiss their original article, but it's farer to the author that criticism should be aimed at her orignal points, not words put into her mouth by those trying to score simplistic points.

    They make a desert and call it peace 2006

  • Even as Kane whirled he realized he had committed the jungle-farer's unpardonable crime -- he had allowed his astonishment and curiosity to throw him off guard.

    Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

  • Perhaps it is to my shame that I liked John the better of the two; he had grit and dash, and that salt of the Old Adam that pleases men with any savage inheritance of blood; and he was a way-farer besides, and took my gipsy fancy.

    Memories and Portraits 2005

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