[f. CIRCLE + -ER.]
1. One who encircles or surrounds; circler of the earth, transl. of Gr. γαιήοχος.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XIII. 42. Neptune, circler of the earth [γαιήοχος].
1791. Cowper, Odyss., VIII. 431. Earth-circler Neptune, spare me that request.
2. One who or that which moves in a circle.
1780. Sir W. Jones, in Parr’s Works (1828), VII. 209. Who made the nightly circlers, the stars.
1805. Southey, Madoc in Azt., xii. Toward the ground The aërial circlers speed.
3. Used to trans. L. scriptor cyclicus, cyclic poet.
a. 1637. B. Jonson, trans. Horace’s Art Poetry, 136. Nor so begin, as did that circler late, I sing a noble warre, and Priam’s fate.
