sweater

noun

1. 1

   A knitted jacket or jersey, usually of thick wool, worn by athletes before or after exercise.

2. 2

   A similar garment worn for warmth.

   We could slip away / Wouldn't that be better? / Me with nothing to say / And you in your autumn sweater

3. 3

   One who sweats (produces sweat).

   The cardiologist who administered Alex's exercise stress test on August 21 observed during that test that Alex was a profuse sweater.

4. 4

   One who or that which causes to sweat.

   We learn of the cruelty of some school or child-factory from journalists; we learn it from inspectors, we learn it from doctors, we learn it even from shame-stricken schoolmasters and repentant sweaters; but we never learn it from the children; we never learn it from the victims.

5. 5

   A diaphoretic remedy.

6. 6

   historicalAn exploitative middleman who subcontracted piece work in the tailoring trade.

   If the piecework system had not existed there never would have been any sweatees. The men who are sweaters, I am sorry to say, are men who formerly belonged to our union.

7. 7

   archaicOne who sweats coins, i.e. removes small portions by shaking them.

8. 8

   obsoleteA London street ruffian in Queen Anne's time who prodded passers-by with his sword-point.

   Among them were the "sweaters" who formed a circle round their prisoner and pricked him with their swords until he sank exhausted to the ground, […]

verb

1. 1

   To dress in a sweater.

Forms

plural

sweaters

past tense

sweatered

past participle

sweatered

present participle

sweatering

third person singular

sweaters