[f. LOWER v. + -ER1.] One who or something which lowers.
1869. Ouachita Telegraph (Monroe, LA), 2 Oct., 1/6. These [suffragettes] are the so-called ‘Women of America,’ the agitators, the women lowerers, the women slanders, the women stabbers of New York, in the year of our Lord, 1869.
1875. Once a Week, 13 March, 27/2. Suddenly there was a check of the rope, and a shout from below to lower away, but the voice sounded faint and distant. But the end of one rope was now in the lowerers’ hands.
1890. Sweet, Primer Phonetics, 15. Intermediate positions between the nine cardinal ones are marked by diacritics: [char.] ‘raiser,’ [char.] ‘lowerer’ … [char.] [char.] ‘backward lowerer.’
