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CHARGER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle
Synonyms:
charger; courser
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("charger" is a kind of...):
warhorse (horse used in war)
Derivation:
charge (to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A device that can hold a rechargeable battery by means of an electrical cable
Synonyms:
battery charger; charger
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("charger" is a kind of...):
device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose)
Derivation:
charge (energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge)
Context examples:
Line after line, and rank after rank, they choked the neck of the valley with a long vista of tossing pennons, twinkling lances, waving plumes and streaming banderoles, while the curvets and gambades of the chargers lent a constant motion and shimmer to the glittering, many-colored mass.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Close at his heels came sixteen squires, all chosen from the highest families, and behind them rode twelve hundred English knights, with gleam of steel and tossing of plumes, their harness jingling, their long straight swords clanking against their stirrup-irons, and the beat of their chargers' hoofs like the low deep roar of the sea upon the shore.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Down went the whole ranks in a whirl of mad confusion, horses plunging and kicking, bewildered men falling, rising, staggering on or back, while ever new lines of horsemen came spurring through the gaps and urged their chargers up the fatal slope.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Lord Audley and the unknown knight struck each other fairly upon the helmet; but, while the stranger sat as firm and rigid as ever upon his charger, the Englishman was bent back to his horse's cropper by the weight of the blow, and had galloped half-way down the lists ere he could recover himself.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Yet, by the goodness of heaven and the pious intercession of the valiant St. George, I was able to sit my charger in the ruffle of Poictiers, which was no very long time afterwards.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He had scarce done so before Sir Nigel rode out from the holders' enclosure, and galloping at full speed down the lists, drew his charger up before the prince's stand with a jerk which threw it back upon its haunches.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
With white armor, blazoned shield, and plume of ostrich-feathers from his helmet, he carried himself in so jaunty and joyous a fashion, with tossing pennon and curveting charger, that a shout of applause ran the full circle of the arena.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So silent and still were they, that they might have been metal-sheathed statues, were it not for the occasional quick, impatient stamp of their chargers, or the rattle of chamfron against neck-plates as they tossed and strained.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
All along by the sedgy banks of the rivers long lines of pages led their masters' chargers down to water, while the knights themselves lounged in gayly-dressed groups about the doors of their pavilions, or rode out, with their falcons upon their wrists and their greyhounds behind them, in quest of quail or of leveret.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mounted upon a horse as large, as black, and as forbidding as himself, he cantered slowly forward, with none of those prancings and gambades with which a cavalier was accustomed to show his command over his charger.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
