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  • noun Plural form of tamer.

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Examples

  • Last week (June 13th) I removed the grates and 'tamers' to clean out the unit and noticed that one of the five burners was split and all of the others were rusted.

    unknown title 2009

  • And 1, who am composed of those first horse tamers, have not had their red anger bred out of me.

    Chapter 18 2010

  • On the path right in front of me sat a small container of animal-control feed, something lion tamers use to make creatures obey their every command.

    Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011

  • At the dawn of the nineteenth century, twenty-five thousand girls and women were transported from the British Isles to Australia to serve as "tamers and breeders" in a land where men outnumbered women nine to one.

    Deborah Swiss: The First Female Flash Mob Deborah Swiss 2010

  • /Associated Press Indian bull tamers held onto a bull during a harvest festival in Pongal, India, Tuesday.

    Asia in Pictures 2012

  • At the dawn of the nineteenth century, twenty-five thousand girls and women were transported from the British Isles to Australia to serve as "tamers and breeders" in a land where men outnumbered women nine to one.

    Deborah Swiss: The First Female Flash Mob Deborah Swiss 2010

  • In two-thirds of households, men still are the primary outdoor flame tamers.

    Haute Coals: Frilly Grilling on the Backyard BBQ Gwendolyn Bounds 2011

  • On the path right in front of me sat a small container of animal-control feed, something lion tamers use to make creatures obey their every command.

    Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011

  • "He was a great artist and one of the best tamers across Europe," said Cristina Segura, a Spanish trapeze artist known as Pinito del Oro.

    Top Lion Tamer Dies in Madrid Santiago P 2010

  • They'd been playing lion-tamers at the time, and I ended up freaking out an Interflora lady by ordering Mum some spring flowers "with a whip".

    Wine: The mysterious world of chianti classico 2010

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