forwarder
English
Noun
forwarder (plural forwarders)
- One who, or that which, forwards something to another destination.
Adjective
forwarder
- (archaic or dialectal) Comparative form of forward: more forward.
- 1763 June, James Ferguson, “Kennedy’s Astronomical Chronology”, in The Critical Review, volume 15, page 411:
- But whilst she is moving from her perigee to her apogee, her true place is observed to be forwarder than her mean place, and therefore, throughout that half of her orbit, the equation must be added to her mean place, in order to find her true place.
- 1942, L. Sprague de Camp, Fletcher Pratt, chapter VII, in Land of Unreason:
- He tried thinking his way through the problem, but that did not get him any forwarder.
Usage notes
Now chiefly in “get (someone) forwarder”.
References
- “forwarder, adj. and adv.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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