Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that speeds, especially a driver who exceeds a legal or safe speed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A regulator or governor for controlling the revolutions of a machine, such as an electric motor.
- noun One who makes speed; one who advances rapidly, or who gains success.
- noun One who or that which moves with great swiftness, as a horse.
- noun One who or something which promotes speed; specifically, some mechanical contrivance for quickening speed of motion or operation; any speeding device in a machine, as a pair of speed-cones or cone-pulleys. See
speed-multiplier . - noun In cotton manufacturing, a machine which takes the place of the bobbin and fly-frame, receiving the slivers from the carders, and twisting them into rovings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, speeds.
- noun (Spinning) A machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
speeds , or exceeds the maximum legal speed limit. - noun dated A
machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings, inspinning .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a driver who exceeds the safe speed limit
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Examples
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So I went from my drawing tenders to at that time what was called a speeder frame.
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A Dish of Poached Eggs. Have ready a kettle of boiling water, pour it in a pan or speeder, which is set on coals; have the eggs at hand; put a little salt in the water, and break them in, one at a time, till you get all in; let them remain till the white is set, and take them out with an egg-spoon, and put on a dish that has buttered toast on it.
Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Elizabeth E. Lea
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Steve's museum is home to not only endless Star Wars toys, costumes, model kits, action figures and posters, but also classic film artifacts such as speeder bike and snowspeeder models, pieces of the krayt dragon skeleton, Mos Eisley Cantina creature masks (made from the original molds) and a Han Solo stunt pistol, to name just a few.
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So here in South Carolina a cop hit another car while trying to catch a "speeder" that wouldn't stop.
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Of course no charges were filed against the officer who was trying to catch the "speeder" that wouldn't stop.
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Missouri issues new rules for red light and "speeder" cameras
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Missouri issues new rules for red light and "speeder" cameras
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Missouri imposes new rules on 'speeder' and red-light cameras
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Missouri imposes new rules on 'speeder' and red-light cameras
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Star Wars Titanium Kashyyyk speeder bike scout die cast
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