Aider

Definitions

1. A person who aids or assists.
2. A mountaineer's stirrup or étrier.

Equivalents

Examples

“The capitaines of the toune seyng theire pillers borken, and their chief ayders discomfited, rendered the toune to the duke of Somerset,”

“[…] arte is neither an aider nor a surmounter, but onely a bare immitatour of natures works, following and counterfeyting her actions and effects […]”

“[…] being there as an assistant, he actually seemed—[…]—to be the aider and abettor of a system which filled him with honest disgust and indignation, […]”

“The woman in question⟳ had, as she said, been a close⟳ friend of Margaret’s, and, as such, an aider in her habits of intemperance.”

“As I was switching my feet in my aiders, the hook popped.”

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