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Finisher   /fˈɪnɪʃər/   Listen
Finisher

noun
1.
(baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game.  Synonym: closer.
2.
A racing driver who finishes a race.
3.
A painter who applies a finishing coat.
4.
A worker who performs the last step in a manufacturing process.
5.
A race car that finishes a race.
6.
An animal that wins in a contest of speed.





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"Finisher" Quotes from Famous Books



... his lord's advice, and went straightforward with him through many great adventures, helping him with loving good-will as often as he was permitted, sometimes as his pioneer, and sometimes as his finisher of troublesome work, such as a slaughter of some thousands of infidels. Now he chucked a spy into a river—now felled a rude ambassador to the earth (for he didn't stand upon ceremony)—now cleared a space round him in battle with the clapper ...
— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 • Leigh Hunt
... case of this class of worker and the earnings, from an inspector's note-book: "Antonia Scarafino, 235 Mulberry Street; finisher; gets five cents per pair pants, bastes bottoms, puts linings on; one hour to make; two years at this business; four in this country; married, with baby; sister works with her; can both together make $4 per week; husband peddles fish and makes ...
— Aliens or Americans? • Howard B. Grose
... them by the week out of the lump sum he receives for the garments from the clothing establishment. Under the piece operating system each operator sews up all the seams on one "piece," or garment, and each finisher does all the hand sewing on one garment. Each operator and each finisher is an independent worker. The whole body of finishers keeps pace with the whole body of operators. Piece operating is used almost entirely in dress and ...
— Wage Earning and Education • R. R. Lutz
... Carrick had a great and glorious Bird Day. Mr. Phillips was the author of it, and Governor Tener the finisher. On that day occurred the third annual gift distribution of raw materials designed to promote in the breasts of 2,000 children a love for birds and an active desire to protect and increase them. Mr. Phillips gave away 500 bird boxes, 500 sweet cherry trees and 200 mulberry trees. The sun shone ...
— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday


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