speeder

English

Etymology

From speed +‎ -er.

Noun

speeder (plural speeders)

1. One who speeds: one who exceeds the maximum legal speed limit.
2. (dated) A machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings, in spinning.
3. (rail transport) A motorized railroad track crew cart.

   Coordinate term: handcar

4. (industrial relations) A fast worker selected by a company to exemplify the rate of work generally expected; a pacesetter.

   Synonym: bell-horse

   • 2001, Laura Hapke, Labor's Text: The Worker in American Fiction, page 63:

     As a series of WTUL, Socialist, and garment union speakers illuminate the oppression of her life, including her misperception that because she is a "speeder," or quick worker, she profits accordingly, she eagerly receives the new truths.

Related terms

• speeding
• speed loader

Translations

one who speeds

Dutch: hardrijder (nl) Finnish: hurjastelija (fi) German: Temposünder (de) m, Temposünderin (de) f Icelandic: ökuníðingur m

References

• “speeder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Further reading

• speeder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• preseed, speered

Danish

Noun

speeder c (singular definite speederen, plural indefinite speedere)

1. An accelerator pedal.

   Synonym: gaspedal

Declension

Declension of speeder

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	speeder	speederen	speedere	speederne
genitive	speeders	speederens	speederes	speedernes

Further reading

• “speeder” in Den Danske Ordbog

Scots

Noun

speeder (plural speeders)

1. (Southern Scots) a spider