Definition of "curtailer" []

• One who curtails. (noun)

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• "Revillagigedo Island, which Vancouver named for the viceroy of Mexico who was kind to him, when the official curtailer of names finds time to attend to _it_."
• ""Straitness of means is a great curtailer of pleasure," said Miss Munns, gazing solemnly into space over the edge of her spectacles."
• "It will be better all around to examine into the matter without heat or haste, and see just where we stand before either of us makes a mistake -- for the curtailing of the liberties of a citizen of the United States is a much more serious matter than you and the railroads seem to think, and it cannot be done in my person until the curtailer proves his right to do so."