[f. TRICK v. + -ER1.]
1. One who plays tricks or practises trickery; a cheat, deceiver, trickster; also, one who plays a trick or prank.
1562. J. Heywood, Prov. & Epigr. (1867), 107. This tricke … Brought to this tricker nother muse nor mase.
1606. Choice, Chance, etc. (1881), 7. Leaue tricks to trickers.
a. 1734. North, Lives (1826), II. 418. All the various species of politicians and trickers.
a. 1849. H. Coleridge, Ess. (1851), II. 135. These trickers unwittingly speak truth.
† 2. One who tricks out, decks, or artfully adorns.
a. 1553. C. Bansley, Treat., xxx. (Percy Soc.), 8. A wanton tricker … Wyth a double fardyngale and a caped cassoc, moche lyke a players gowne.
1567. Triall Treas. (1850), 24. She hath an amiable face; A tricker, a trimmer, in faith that she is, The goddess of wealth, prosperitie and bliss.
1600. Kemp, Nine Daies Wond., i. A iij. Caualiero Kemp … onely tricker of your Trill-lilles, and best bel-shangles betweene Sion and mount Surrey.
3. One who tricks a coat of arms.
1586. Ferne, Blaz. Gentrie, To Gentl. Inner Temple, I did alwaies abhor the nude title and bare skill of a Blazoner, things common to each painter and tricker of armes.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, I. 2/2. Every Painter, Tricker, or a meer Blazoner of Arms, will not serve to make … an absolute Herauld.
† 4. Some tool used by burglars. Obs. rare.
1592. Greene, Art Conny catch., II. D iij. He [the curber] hath his trickers, which are engines of Iron so cunningly wrought, that he wil cut a barre of Iron in two with them.
