Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who reclaims.

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

  • noun One who reclaims.

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  • noun One who reclaims.

Etymologies

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reclaim +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Reuters A bucket wheel reclaimer collects ore at the BHP Billiton loading facility in Port Hedland, Australia.

    BHP Is Wary About Costs Robb M. Stewart 2011

  • Reuters A bucket wheel reclaimer collects ore at the BHP Billiton iron ore loading facility in Port Hedland, about 1,600 kilometers 960 miles north of Perth.

    BHP Billiton Posts Higher Revenue, Lower Net Robb M. Stewart 2012

  • Groovy po-mo Socialist Realist posters and stickers from Shepard Fairey, a king-hell guerilla artist and reclaimer of the public spaces.

    Boing Boing: January 14, 2001 - January 20, 2001 Archives 2001

  • Do you see yourself as a "re-storier" for the Ojibwe — a reclaimer of narratives that were never written down or were drowned out by what was taught in school about Native Americans?

    An Emissary of the Between-World 2001

  • Fraser completed his bath, squeezed the sponge into the basin and emptied that into the reclaimer, ran a depilator over his bristly features and a comb through his hair.

    Three Worlds To Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

  • Fraser completed his bath, squeezed the sponge into the basin and emptied that into the reclaimer, ran a depilator over his bristly features and a comb through his hair.

    Three Worlds to Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

  • But what difference did it really make, after the sanitary distillation of a reclaimer?

    The Planet Strappers Raymond Z. Gallun 1952

  • The small nuclear battery which energized the moisture-reclaimer, the heating units, and especially the air-restorer -- not only for turning its pumps but for providing the intense internal illumination necessary to promote the release of oxygen in the photosynthetic process of the chlorophane when there was no sun -- had been replaced by a chemical battery of a far smaller active life-span!

    The Planet Strappers Raymond Z. Gallun 1952

  • While the others checked with their eyes, they inspected the nipples of the moisture-reclaimer and chlorophane air-restorer capsules.

    The Planet Strappers Raymond Z. Gallun 1952

  • Then he crept through the double sealing flaps of the airlock, to install the air-restorer and the moisture-reclaimer in the circular, tunnel-like interior that would now be his habitation.

    The Planet Strappers Raymond Z. Gallun 1952

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