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circler|ˈsɜːklə(r)|
[f. circle + -er.]
1. One who encircles or surrounds; circler of the earth, transl. of Gr. γαιήοχος.
c1611Chapman Iliad xiii. 42 Neptune, circler of the earth [γαιήοχος]. 1791Cowper Odyss. viii. 431 Earth-circler Neptune, spare me that request.
2. One who or that which moves in a circle.
1780Sir W. Jones in Parr's Works (1828) VII. 209 Who made the nightly circlers, the stars. 1805Southey Madoc in Azt. xii, Toward the ground The aërial circlers speed.
3. Used to trans. L. scriptor cyclicus, cyclic poet.
a1637B. Jonson tr. Horace's Art Poetry 136 Nor so begin, as did that circler late, I sing a noble warre, and Priam's fate. |
