Definitions for Getter

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Getter get·ter

Spelling: [get-er]

IPA: /ˈgɛt ər/

Getter is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in Getter (eegrtt).

Definitions for Getter

noun

1. a person or thing that gets.
2. any substance introduced into a partial vacuum, as the interior of a vacuum tube or an incandescent lamp, to combine chemically with the residual gas in order to increase the vacuum.
3. Chiefly Canadian. poisoned bait used to exterminate wolves, gophers, and other pests from farm areas.

Origin of Getter

Middle English word dating back to 1325-75; See origin at get, -er¹

Examples for Getter

Because he's a rather clever old scoundrel, and he'll know that I'm a succeeder—a getter.

If he had come on working as a getter, I should ha' been nowhere; he's a weigher now and makes fat, and his muscles are flabby.

Thus the getter lived without work and taught the loser the uselessness of further exercise.

Just to make sure of cleaning up the last infinitesimal traces, though, I'm going to flash a getter charge of tantalum in it.

All his life he had been a getter of money, or so the world held him.

Both the dust itself and its secondary effects are getter closer to us all the time.