upsetter

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English

Etymology

From upset +‎ -er.

Noun

upsetter (plural upsetters)

  1. One who upsets (something); a disrupter.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , Part 1:
      And so were all Christians in Pliny's time, insane like others, and called not long after, followers of madness, upsetters of men, vicious innovators
  2. A person or device that turns something upside down.
  3. (metalworking) A kind of forging machine that moves horizontally.

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