[f. CURTAIL v. + -ER.] One who curtails, shortens, abridges.

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1734.  Waterland, Athan. Creed, x. 141. That the Latins had not been interpolators of the creed, but that the Greeks had been curtailers.

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1813.  Shelley, Q. Mab, Note viii. Disease and war, those sweeping curtailers of population.

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