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forwarder1
plural forwarders
- One who, or that which, forwards something to another destination.
forwarder2
- archaiccomparativedialectalComparative form of forward: more forward.
He tried thinking his way through the problem, but that did not get him any forwarder.
1942, L. Sprague de Camp, Fletcher Pratt, chapter VII, in Land of Unreason2 more examples
It is hard to draw evill men to good actions, especially for Church and State; therefore will I suspect that wherein they are more forwarder then honester men.
1642, A Frivolous Paper, in Forme of a Petition […], page 7But whilst she is moving from her perigee to her apogee, her true place is observed to be forwarder than her mean place, and therefore, throughout that half of her orbit, the equation must be added to her mean place, in order to find her true place.
1763 June, James Ferguson, “Kennedy’s Astronomical Chronology”, in The Critical Review, volume 15, page 411
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