Meaning

4 senses

  1. Someone who brushes (any of the meanings).

  2. (historical)A person employed to cut or blast the roof or floor of a roadway and so give more height.

  3. (historical)A person who gets the mineral down by blasting in the working face after it has been "holed".

  4. (Internet)An online seller who uses the fraudulent technique of brushing.

Origin

From brush + -er.

From brush + -er.

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Forms

plural: brushers
Singularbrusher
Pluralbrushers

regular

Word family

2 related words
Derivedbroad-brushertoothbrusher

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bruntbrushA1brutalbrutalitybrutallybrute

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