repairer

Noun

repairer (plural repairers)

1. A person who repairs things.
   • And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 58:12
   • The men on the freight trains, who go over the whole length of the road, bow to me as to an old acquaintance, they pass me so often, and apparently they take me for an employee; and so I am. I too would fain be a track-repairer somewhere in the orbit of the earth.1854, Henry David Thoreau, chapter IV, in Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, published 1910, pages 151–2

   Synonyms:

   repairperson, translator