starter

Definitions

• Someone who starts something.
• Something that starts something.
• The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
• (team sports) A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
• A dog that rouses game.
• (historical) A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy.
• (rail) A railway signal controlling the starting of trains from a station or some other location, more fully called a starter signal or starting signal.