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finder
UK /ˈfaɪndə/ US /ˈfaɪndəɹ/
noun 3name 1
Definitions
noun
1
One who finds or discovers something; a discoverer.
Finders keepers, losers weepers.
The finder of treasure trove owns it against the landowner and everyone else except the true owner.
2
A device, such as a viewfinder, used to locate a target or other object of interest.
Perhaps some electrical finder could have been developed so delicate that it could have located the source of all this spreading joy and fortune.
3
A person who picks up scraps and oddments to sell to make a living.
Even the Whitechapel meat-market is less the scene of prey, for it is a series of shops, while Leadenhall presents many stalls, and the finders seem loath to enter shops without some plausible pretext.
name
1
A surname from German.
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