Dresser

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈdɹɛsÉ™/
• Rhymes: -É›sÉ™(r)

From Old French dresseur, from the verb dresser.

Full definition of dresser

Noun

1. An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.
• 1847, Longfellow, The pewter plates on the dresser
  Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine.
• 1913, D. H. Lawrence, ,But it went through her like a flash of hot fire when, in passing, he lurched against the dresser, setting the tins rattling, and clutched at the white pot knobs for support.
2. An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers, often with a mirror.
3. (dated) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
4. (mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.

From dress + -er.

Noun

1. Agent noun of dress:
1. One who dresses in a particular way.He's a very snappy dresser.
2. A wardrobe assistant in a theatre.
3. (medicine) A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc.
• 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, I:On the very day that I had come to this conclusion, I was standing at the Criterion Bar, when someone tapped me on the shoulder, and turning round I recognized young Stamford, who had been a dresser under me at Bart's.

Anagrams

• redress