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biter

[bahy-ter]
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noun
  1. a person or animal that bites, especially habitually or viciously: That dog is a biter.
  2. Chiefly Chesapeake Bay. the larger claw of a crab.
  3. Obsolete. a cheat; swindler; fraud.
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Origin of biter

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; see origin at bite, -er1
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Historical Examples

  • Ugly as the situation is, I like to think of this biting of the biter.

    Highways & Byways in Sussex

    E.V. Lucas

  • It certainly was a narrow escape, and it may be said that the “biter was nearly bit.”

    Percival Keene

    Frederick Marryat

  • The “boxer,” the “biter,” the “hugger,” are the most conspicuous.

    True Bear Stories

    Joaquin Miller

  • It's biter bit, and I don't pity you one mossel; it sarves you right.

    The Attache

    Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  • Was he not avenged on the highwayman at last, seeing that the biter was bitten!