tester

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

• n. One that tests: a battery tester; a taste tester.
• n. A canopy, as over a bed or pulpit.
• n. See teston.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

• n. A canopy over a bed etc.
• n. A person who administers a test.
• n. A device used for testing.
• n. A sample of perfume available in a shop for customers to try before they buy.
• n. An old French silver coin.
• n. A sixpence.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• n. A headpiece; a helmet.
• n. A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb.
• n. A canopy over a bed, supported by the bedposts.
• n. An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

• n. One who tests, tries, assays, or proves.
• n. Any instrument or apparatus used in testing: as, a steam-gage tester; a vacuum-tester.
• n. A canopy.
• n. Specifically— The frame which connects the tops of the posts in a four-post bedstead, and the material stretched upon it, the whole forming a sort of canopy.
• n. In architecture, a flat canopy, as over a pulpit or a tomb.
• n. A head-piece; a helmet.
• n. A name given to the shillings coined by Henry VIII., and to sixpences later (compare teston); also, in modern slang, a sixpence.

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

• n. someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications
• n. a flat canopy (especially one over a four-poster bed)