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/rɪfrˈɛʃər/ Listen

noun

Refresher n.

One who, or that which, refreshes.

(Law) An extra fee paid to counsel in a case that has been adjourned from one term to another, or that is unusually protracted. "Ten guineas a day is the highest refresher which a counsel can charge."

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Etymology of 'Refresher'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Refresher" Quotes from Famous Books

... Auspicious occasion. Happy to meet you, sir." Benjamin had risen, and was motioning the Father of Timber Town to a seat upon the couch, where he himself had been sitting. "You will perceive that I am enjoying a light refresher. Have something yourself at ...

— The Tale of Timber Town • Alfred Grace

... that's not a hat. That's Partridge's Patent Atmospheric Refresher. Looks exactly like a high hat, don't it? Now, what's the thing you want most ...

— Elbow-Room - A Novel Without a Plot • Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler)

... the Silver Bow—chaste Diana—deign to become the leading star of our lucubrations; come perch upon our grey goose quill; shout in our ear the maddening Tally-ho! and ever and anon give a salutary "refresher" to our memory with thy heaven-wrought spurs—those spurs old Vulcan forged when in his maddest mood—whilst we relate such feats of town-born youths and city squires, as shall "harrow up the souls" of milk-sop Melton's choicest sons, and "fright their grass-galloping ...

— Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities • Robert Smith Surtees

... varry little furnitur, tho' he'd fettled it up an' made it lewk as smart as he could. They went to a public-haase to ther dinner, an' then they tuk a long raand abaat way hooam, an' as they kept callin' for a refresher it wor ...

— Yorksher Puddin' - A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the - Pen of John Hartley • John Hartley