[f. as prec. + -OR, upon the analogy of L. agent-nouns in -OR.]
1. gen. One who ejects. lit. and fig. See EJECT v. 1, 2.
1640. Bp. Hall, Episc., I. § 17. 70. The ejectors should show better proofe than the ancient possessours.
1645. J. Bond, Occasus Occid., 25. I find that sin branded as an Ejector, as an Exiler, not only of Persons, but of whole Churches.
1657. J. Goodwin, Triers Tried, To Rdr. 2. Two Apocryphall Orders of Commissioned Officers … known by the names of Triers, and Ejectors.
1831. Syd. Smith, Speeches, Wks. 1859, II. 218/1. The merciless ejector, the rural tyrant, will be restrained within the limits of decency and humanity.
1834. Tait’s Mag., I. 494. The venomous slaver … must be carried back to the face of the foul-breathed ejector.
b. Law. The person who ejects another from his holding. Casual ejector: see CASUAL.
1651. W. G., trans. Cowel’s Inst., 191. If a third person eject him against Right, he shall recover damages against the Ejector.
1768. Blackstone, Comm., III. 200. The lessee had no other remedy against the ejector but in damages.
1817. W. Selwyn, Law Nisi Prius, II. 680. The parties, viz. the plaintiff, and the defendant, the ejector, usually termed the casual ejector, are fictitious persons.
1880. Muirhead, Gaius, IV. § 154. The result of violent, clandestine, or precarious taking from the ejector himself.
2. Applied to various portions of machinery, etc., serving the purpose of ejecting; e.g., an appliance for discharging empty cartridge cases from a breech-loader; a contrivance for ejecting the ashes from the stoke-hole of a marine engine; an apparatus for discharging the contents of sewers by means of compressed air, etc. Also attrib., as in ejector-condenser, -sewer.
1874. Knight, Dict. Mech., Ejector-condenser (steam-engine), a form of condenser worked by the exhaust steam from the cylinder.
1881. Greener, Gun, 128. The ejector is acted upon through its rear claw, that nearest its pivot.
1884. Health Exhib. Catal. (ed. 2), 58/1. Egg-shaped Isaac Shone’s House Ejector Sewers.
1887. Daily News, 25 Oct., 5/2. Of these ejectors there are eight, placed in pairs in different parts of the town.
