local. Also 8 tisor. [ad. mod.F. tiseur a fireman; cf. TEASE v.2] a. One who ‘teases’ or attends to a fire or furnace; a stoker, fireman.

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1797.  P. Wakefield, Mental Improv. (1801), I. 148. The tisors, or persons employed in heating the large furnaces.

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1835.  Sir J. Ross, Narr. 2nd Voy., xxvi. 377. Two mates, and one of the fire teasers.

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1858.  Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Teazer, the stoker or fireman in a glass-work who attends the furnace.

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1894.  [see TEASING vbl. sb.2].

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  b.  An instrument for ‘teasing’ a fire; a poker.

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1839.  Ure, Dict. Arts, 63. The furnace and implements used for assaying in the Royal Mint and the Goldsmiths’ Hall…. Fig. 66, the teaser for cleaning the grate. Fig. 67, a larger teaser, which is introduced at the top of the furnace, for keeping a complete supply of charcoal around the muffle.

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