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rainer en · NOUN

Etymology

From rain + -er.

Meanings

  1. (rare) That which rains, or dispenses something in a shower.
    • Pressure volume relationships determine the quantity of water discharged from rainers of different sizes of nozzle in a given time over the area of the wetted circles[…] 1974, Arthur Chapman Barnes, The Sugar Cane, page 190:
    • c, 1893-1899, Ralph T. H. Griffith (translator), The Vedas Indra, Brhaspati, rainers of treasure, rejoicing at this sacrifice drink the Soma.

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