[f. as prec. + -ER1.] One who or that which combines.
1605. Timme, Quersit., II. 144. The whaye of the blood is as a chariot or mediator, and combiner of the other two beginnings together.
1654. W. Mountague, Devout Ess., II. 186 (L.). This so excellent combiner of all virtues, humility.
b. spec. A member of a combination; a confederate, associate, leaguer, conspirator. (Chiefly pl.)
1638. Hamilton Papers (1880), 6. I have nou hard thes Combiners ar resolved to, etc.
1712. W. Rogers, Voy., 309. The aforesaid Combiners, who have put the Care of the said Ship under an uncapable Command.
1825. Ld. Cockburn, Mem., 330. The combiners … trusted that the bar of Scotland would always supply any force that the defence of political prisoners … might require.
