speeder

plural speeders

1. One who speeds: one who exceeds the maximum legal speed limit.
2. datedA machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings, in spinning.
3. rail transportA motorized railroad track crew cart.
4. industrial relationsA fast worker selected by a company to exemplify the rate of work generally expected; a pacesetter.

   As a series of WTUL, Socialist, and garment union speakers illuminate the oppression of her life, including her misperception that because she is a "speeder," or quick worker, she profits accordingly, she eagerly receives the new truths.

   2001, Laura Hapke, Labor's Text: The Worker in American Fiction, page 63

   Synonyms: bell-horse