[f. STILL v.1 + -ER1.]

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  1.  One who or something that makes still.

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1608.  J. King, Serm. St. Mary’s, Oxf., 27. The stiller of wars, and extinguisher of rebellions.

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1845–6.  Trench, Huls. Lect., Ser. I. i. 157. The stiller of creation’s groans.

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1849.  Tait’s Mag., XVI. 292/1. That is your true stiller of tempests.

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  2.  (See quots.)

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1862.  C. C. Robinson, Dial. Leeds, 422. Stiller, a piece of wood placed on the surface of water in a pail to steady it, when carried any distance.

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1874.  R. G. White, Words & Uses, 213. Floating on the top of the water was a disc of wood a little less in diameter than the rim of the pail. ‘What’s that, my lass?’ he asked. ‘That?’ (with surprise); ‘why, that’s a stiller.’

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