dresser

Meanings

1. An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.
2. An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers (bureau), often with a mirror.

1. One who dresses in a particular way.
2. A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).
3. A servant to royalty etc. who helps them with tasks such as dressing.
4. A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc.
5. A football hooligan who wears designer clothing; a casual.
6. A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting.
7. A mechanical device used in ore mills for dressing (e.g., comminution, sorting, sifting).
8. A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
9. A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
10. One who dresses or prepares stone.

1. A surname.

Etymology

From Middle English dressure, dressor, dressour, a borrowing from Old French drecëur, drecëure, from the verb dresser.