testers

Noun (1)

tester (plural testers)

1. A canopy over a bed.
   • And I could as hardly spare my gloves as my shirt, or forbeare washing of my hands both in the mornng and rising from the table, or lye in a bed without a testerne and curtaines about it, as of most necessary things.1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, volume III, page 13
2. Something that overhangs something else; especially a canopy or sounding board over a pulpit.
   • With our shaggy jackets drawn about our shoulders, we now passed the Tomahawk from one to the other, till slowly there grew over us a blue hanging tester of smoke, illuminated by the flame of the new-lit lamp.1851, Herman Melville, chapter 11, in Moby Dick

Noun (2)

tester (plural testers)

1. A person who administers a test.
2. A device used for testing.
3. (Australia, obsolete, slang) A punishment of 25 lashes (strokes of a whip) across a person′s back.

   Synonyms:

   Botany Bay dozen

4. A sample of perfume available in a shop for customers to try before they buy.

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