Idler

Word IDLER
Character 5
Hyphenation i dler
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Idler"

What do we mean by idler?

One who idles; one who spends his or her time in inaction.

One who idles; a lazy person; a sluggard.

Any member of a ship's crew who is not required to keep the night-watch

A mechanical device such as a pulley or wheel that does not transmit power, but supports a moving belt etc.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Idler

The word "idler" in example sentences

Then the idler is a leech on himself -- his own despoiler. ❋ George Sumner Weaver (N/A)

They should be taught that to labor is honorable, and that the idler is a menace to the commonwealth. ❋ Various (N/A)

The latter will always bear in mind, that he who worked was a man drawing into the wane of life; that he bore about him the appearance of one who, either from incompetency or from some fatality of fortune, had been doomed to struggle through the world, keeping poverty from his residence only by the aid of great industry and rigid frugality; and that the idler was a youth of an age and condition that the acquisition of an entire set of habiliments formed to him a sort of era in his adventures. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)

That puts him perilously closed to being, by Edward's lights, a dreaded "idler" living off his wife's income. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"idler," give to the whole little society the aspect of nothing so much as the court of Prinz Irenaeus in Kater Murr's inestimable autobiography. ❋ Huxley, Leonard (1900)

No more the drudge and idler - ten that toil where one reposes ❋ Terry O'Neill (2011)

An idler who makes no useful contribution to Florence? ❋ Unknown (2009)

I fear that he will become an idler, unless we yield the point, and permit him to enter on the profession which he has selected. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The idler wheel will be a perfect circle and it's "axle" will be in the exact middle. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Already we've got idler pulleys that snap over a skate bearing that are made on a MakerBot. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On a similar note, I have a martin moab, (single cam bow) and just noticed that the string coming off the top idler wheel appears to come off crooked. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mr. and Mrs. Morse had condemned him for an idler and a shirk and through Ruth had urged that he take a clerk's position in an office. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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