trier
English
noun
Definitions
- One who tries; one who makes experiments or examines anything by a test or standard.
- An instrument used for sampling something.
- One who tries judicially.
- (legal) A person appointed by law to try challenges of jurors; a trior.
- (obsolete) That which tries or approves; a test.
Etymology
Suffix from English try (extract oil from whale blubber).
Origin
English
try
Gloss
extract oil from whale blubber
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mistry English
- overtry English
- retry English
- triable English
- tried English
- triest English
- trieth English
- try English
- try pot English
- tryhard English
- trying English
- tryless English
- tryscorer English
- tryscoring English
- trysquare English
- trywork English
- トライ Japanese
- trien Middle English
- tray Malay
- טרײַען Yiddish
- traim Tok Pisin