getter

[ get-er ]

/ ˈgɛt ər /

noun

a person or thing that gets.

any substance introduced into a partial vacuum, as the interior of a vacuum tube or an incandescent lamp, to combine chemically with the residual gas in order to increase the vacuum.

Chiefly Canadian. poisoned bait used to exterminate wolves, gophers, and other pests from farm areas.

Origin of getter

Middle English word dating back to 1325–75; see origin at get, -er¹

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Examples from the Web for getter

Thus the getter lived without work and taught the loser the uselessness of further exercise.
Prowling about Panama|George A. Miller
All his life he had been a getter of money, or so the world held him.
Mammon and Co.|E. F. Benson
Because he's a rather clever old scoundrel, and he'll know that I'm a succeeder—a getter.
Happy House|Betsey Riddle, Freifrau von Hutten zum Stolzenberg
Both the dust itself and its secondary effects are getter closer to us all the time.
Criminal Negligence|Jesse Francis McComas

Just to make sure of cleaning up the last infinitesimal traces, though, I'm going to flash a getter charge of tantalum in it.
Skylark Three|Edward Elmer Smith

British Dictionary definitions for getter

getter

/ (ˈɡɛtə) /

noun

a person or thing that gets

a substance, usually a metal such as titanium, evaporated onto the walls of a vacuum tube, vessel, etc, to adsorb the residual gas and lower the pressure

verb

(tr) to remove (a gas) by the action of a getter

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