Thesaurus: tester

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1. n. A headpiece; a helmet.
2. n. A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb.
3. n. A canopy over a bed, supported by the bedposts.
4. n. An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston.
5. n. someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications
6. n. a flat canopy (especially one over a four-poster bed)
7. 1. A headpiece; a helmet. [Obs.] The shields bright, testers, and trappures. Chaucer. 2. A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb. Oxf. Gross. 3. A canopy over a bed, supported by the bedposts. No testers to the bed, and the saddles and portmanteaus heaped on me to keep off the cold. Walpole. An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston. Shak.
8. An old French silver coin, originally of the value of abouteighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later tosixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; --often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston. Shak.
9. n:100 n. a flat canopy (especially one over a four-poster bed)