[f. LICK v. + -ER1.] One who or something that licks. Also licker-up; in silver-plating = lick-up (see LICK v. 8).
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 305/1. Lykkare, or he þat lykkythe, lecator.
1552. Huloet, Licker, lictor.
1839. Ure, Dict. Arts, 999. Plated manufacture … The under face of the stamp-hammer has a plate of iron called the licker-up fitted into it.
1860. Gen. P. Thompson, Audi Alt., III. cxxxviii. 111. Being acquiescent lickers-up of ministerial dishonour.
1898. Daily News, 4 April, 8/3. The licker of red-hot irons was briskly following his profession.
