anticer

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A form of anti-icer — A device or chemical substance that prevents ice formation or removes any formed ice.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

nounanticer (plural anticers)

plural anticers

  1. datedDated form of anti-icer.

    A test flight under heavy ice forming conditions was also made with a Gordon aeroplane fitted with anticers […]

    1936, The Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, volume 40, page 19

Origin

Blend of anti- + ice + -er, originally a Dunlop trade name.

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