chasers

Noun

chaser (plural chasers)

1. Something or someone who chases.
   • One student is the chaser and the other is the chasee. Give the chasee three seconds to get away and then allow the chaser to attempt to tag the chasee.2007, David Oatman, Old Favorites, New Fun, page 32
2. A horse trained for steeplechasing; a steeplechaser.
   • "[I]t looked like The Fellow was the best steeplechaser in many years. He'd earned the best speed rating I'd ever given a chaser."2002, Nick Mordin, Betting for a Living, page 351
3. (obsolete) A hunter (a horse bred and trained for use in hunting).
4. (slang) A drink consumed after another of a different kind.
   • beer chaser
5. (obsolete, timber industry) Someone who follows logs out of the forest in order to signal a yarder engineer to stop them if they become fouled
   • ...on one end known as a Bardon choker hook, to facilitate making a loop. It stays tight and makes it unnecessary for the "chaser" or "choker setter" to follow the "turn" to the landing as might have to be done if tongs are used1900, unknown author, Pamphlets on Logging Equipment, page 22

   Synonyms:

   frogger

6. (timber industry) One who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing.
   • "The rigging slinger hooks the chokers to the main line, the chaser unhooks them at the spar tree."1956, Stewart Hall Holbrook, Holy Old Mackinaw: A Natural History of the American Lumber-Jack, page 184

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