resorters

Noun

resorter (plural resorters)

1. One who resorts, or has recourse (to something)
   • He is a frequent resorter to medicinal aids and appliance to combat old age and infirmity , but it is always God Who prescribes for him .1958, Phœnix (pseud.), His Holiness, page 187
2. A frequenter.
   • As 'a common resorter to the houses of Popish recusants and a scoffer of goodness and good men' [i.e. Puritans] he could expect no less from the parliamentary authorities.1992, Philip Ernest Tennant, Edgehill and Beyond, page 235
3. One who travels somewhere for recreation; a tourist or holidayer.
   • […] for this land of the north, outside of a few centers, has hardly been touched by the resorters, so vast are the uncamped and uncottaged stretches.1933, William Henry Phelps, Ye Lakes and Hills of Michigan "We're with You Once Again", page 18
4. A person who runs a resort
   • When all has been said and done, the crucial problem of the resorter is to attract the tourist to his particular resort .1950, Victor H. Lanning ·, The Wisconsin Tourist, page 7
5. The process by which property that was previously transferred or granted to a new owner reverts or is reclaimed by the original owner or that person's heirs.
   • And even if the reversion is understood in such a case to be the donor and his heirs, a resorter to a stranger ought not to be understood so widely.2010, John Hamilton Baker, Baker and Milsom Sources of English Legal History, page 52
6. Some or something that sorts previously sorted items.
   • Unsalable fruit (over 20 percent of that reaching the resorter) is hauled away and dumped.1965, North Carolina State University. Department of Agricultural Economics, A.E. Information Series - Issues 121-129, page 10