loader noun¹. ['lǝʊdǝ] ME.
[from LOAD verb + -ER¹.]
1. a. A person who loads something; a person whose task it is to load guns; (obsolete exc. dial.) a carrier. ME.
Scottish Sunday Express Passengers were delayed yesterday when loaders walked out at..Heathrow Airport.
b. A machine or device for loading things; Computing a program which controls the loading of other programs. L19.

2. With preceding noun or adjective: a gun, machine, vessel, etc., that is loaded in the specified way. M19.
front-loader etc.
Independent The vessel..is a stern loader.

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