trembler noun.
['trɛmblǝ] ME.[from TREMBLE verb + -ER1.]1. A person who trembles, esp. with fear; a timorous or terrified person.
ME.2. A member of a religious sect having devotional exercises accompanied by trembling, quaking, or shaking;
spec. a Quaker.
obsolete exc.
Hist. L17.3. Any of several thrashers (birds) of the genera
Cinclocerthia and
Ramphocinclus which have the habit of violent shaking, found in the Lesser Antilles.
M19.4. Electricity. A vibrating spring blade which alternately makes and breaks the circuit in an induction coil; such a blade used as a security device sensitive to physical disturbance.
L19.
Comb.:
trembler bell an electric bell rung by a hammer attached to a trembler.
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