tester : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: tester	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tester n someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications Synonym(s): examiner, tester, quizzer a flat canopy (especially one over a four-poster bed)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tester \Tes"ter\, n. [OE. testere a headpiece, helmet, OF. testiere, F. t[88]ti[8a]re a head covering, fr. OF. teste the head, F. t[88]te, fr. L. testa an earthen pot, the skull. See {Test} a cupel, and cf. {Testi[8a]re}.] 1. A headpiece; a helmet. [Obs.] The shields bright, testers, and trappures. --Chaucer. 2. A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb. --Oxf. Gross. 3. A canopy over a bed, supported by the bedposts. No testers to the bed, and the saddles and portmanteaus heaped on me to keep off the cold. --Walpole.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tester \Tes"ter\, n. [For testern, teston, fr. F. teston, fr. OF. teste the head, the head of the king being impressed upon the coin. See {Tester} a covering, and cf. {Testone}, {Testoon}.] An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to {tizzy}. Called also {teston}. --Shak.