[f. WALLOW v.1 + -ER1.]
1. A person or animal who wallows.
1611. Cotgr., Veautreur, a wallower, or tumbler in the mire.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1768), VIII. 61. What miry wallowers the generality of men of our class are in themselves.
1767. T. Nevile, Imit. Juvenal, xiii. 154. Lust’s Votaries who live and die, Eternal Wall’wers in Circean sty.
1823. Scott, Quentin D., xxii. Ye porkers of Liege! ye wallowers in the mud of the Maes!
1876. Morris, Sigurd, II. (1877), 112. I knew that the Worm was Fafnir, the Wallower on the Gold.
1898. Meredith, Odes Fr. Hist., 15. He knew … what raised This wallower in old slime to noblest heights.
2. Mech. A trundle, lantern-wheel. Also wallower-wheel.
1548. in Rep. MSS. Ld. Middleton (1911), 493. Paid to Smaley for a newe waloer, iiijd.
1734. Phil. Trans., XXXVIII. 404. By enlarging or diminishing the fix’d Wallower, you obtain a Stroke of any required Height.
1773. W. Emerson, Princ. Mech. (ed. 3), 284. Wallower, a trundle upon a horizontal axis.
1825. J. Nicholson, Operat. Mechanic, 97. The vertical shaft FE carries the two equal wallower-wheels E and F.
1866. C. W. Hatfield, Hist. Notices Doncaster, I. 203. The usual face wheel … gears into a main pinion or ‘wallower.’
