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/sˈərtʃər/ Listen

Searcher

noun

Someone making a search or inquiry. Synonyms: quester, seeker.

A customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items.

Large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars; found in North America. Synonyms: Calosoma scrutator, searcher beetle.

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... stranger probed at crushed ribs. A pitifully feeble moan came from the broken rag doll that lay on the ground. The searcher knelt with his light close to peer into the bloody face, and, unbelieving, Jimmy Holden heard the voice of his mother straining ...

— The Fourth R • George Oliver Smith

... than usual care should be taken in following up any other small prick or dark spot that may show itself upon the white surface of the cleaned sole. In any case, a suspicious-looking speck should be followed up with the searcher until it is either cut out or is traced ...

— Diseases of the Horse's Foot • Harry Caulton Reeks

... few amiable qualities with which it has pleased heaven to endow me beyond the majority of my fellows, a Marlborough-temper is by no means the least in importance. I looked down in the ingenuous face of the searcher after wisdom, quenching, like Malvolio, my familiar smile with ...

— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy

... they got off the boat on the other side, he said to the old man: "You're very good to us monks and pilgrims, you have already ferried many of us across the river. Aren't you too, ferryman, a searcher ...

— Siddhartha • Herman Hesse

... learned," I said, "and a devout follower of the Gods, and searcher into the higher mysteries; but, as a ruler, he ...

— The Lost Continent • C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne

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