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erectour

erectour is the obsolete spelling of erector.

Meaning of erector

Noun

erector (plural erectors)

  1. A person who, or a device which erects.
    • At this stage of the construction process the only people on the site would normally be groundworkers and the steel erectors, followed by the roof cladders.2014, Mike Riley, Alison Cotgrave, Construction Technology 2: Industrial and Commercial Building
  2. Any of several muscles that make parts of the body erect.
  3. An attachment to a microscope, telescope, etc. for making the image erect instead of inverted.
  4. A vehicle used to support a rocket for transportation and for placing the rocket in an upright position within a gantry scaffold.

Forms of erectour

pluralerectours

Questions about erectour

What is erectour the obsolete spelling of?
Erectour is the obsolete spelling of erector.

Words near erectour in the dictionary

  1. erectophile
  2. erector
  3. erector spinae
  4. erectores spinae
  5. erectors
  6. erectour
  7. erectours
  8. erects
  9. erectus
  10. Eredivisie
  11. Ereen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: erectour (page history and authors); erector (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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