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drencher

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
drencher
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who, or that which, drenches.

noun

A fire prevention device, like a sprinkler but ejecting a denser curtain of water and sometimes mounted on the outside of a building to prevent the spread of fire from those nearby.

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Etymology

From Middle English *drencher (found in the Surname Drencher), equivalent to drench + -er.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

drenchers (plural)

Questions

What does drencher mean?
One who, or that which, drenches.
Where does drencher come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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