charger

What it means

1. A device that charges or recharges.

   Put the batteries in the charger overnight so we can use them tomorrow.

   1 more example

   GWR plans to use it on the Greenford branch in west London, making use of a fast charger at West Ealing that will charge the batteries in just three and a half minutes. This fast charger is essentially a battery installed at the lineside which is trickle-charged from the electricity grid. It can then discharge quickly into the train's batteries through charging rails and then start recharging itself while the train is running in service.

   2024 March 6, “Network News: GWR '230' sets UK battery record”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 13

2. One who charges.

   With the first volley Waziri fell. The speed of the chargers slackened. Another volley brought down a half dozen more.

   1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 135

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   That attack may damage the homosexual, but even as he is hurt, he also feels superior, because he is not a bull—a blind, stupid animal. Rather, he is an aesthete—a tweaker, not a charger.

   2018, Robert J. Stoller, Perversion: The Erotic Form of Hatred

3. historicalgovernmentA large horse trained for battle and used by the cavalry.

   The knight rode a white charger.

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   Before the stranger could make any reply to this unexpected proposition, another horseman dashed the bushes asides, and leaped his charger into the pathway in front of his companion.

   1826, [James Fenimore Cooper], The Last of the Mohicans; a Narrative of 1757. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea— […], →OCLC, page 43

   My centuria slept in one of the stables, under the stone mangers where the names of the cavalry chargers were still inscribed.

   1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC

In a sentence

Put the batteries in the charger overnight so we can use them tomorrow.

Where it comes from

1. Middle Englishchargere
2. Englishcharger

From Middle English chargere, equivalent to charge + -er.