[f. EXERCISE v. + -ER1.] One who or that which exercises.
1. In senses of the vb. Const. of.
1552. Huloet, s.v., Exerciser of anye of these fiue games.
1604. Const. & Canons Eccl., cxxvi. Possessours & Exercisers of peculiar Iurisdiction.
c. 1619. Hieron, Wks., I. 16. Crosses … are trialls of faith, exercisers of patience.
1686. J. Sergeant, Monast. Conventions, 11. They [the monks of St. Basil] became so industrious, that their Monastery was called the place of Exercise, and they the Exercisers.
1805. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., III. 240. Excellent sharp-shooters and exercisers.
1831. Blackw. Mag., XXIX. 146. The … virtual exercisers of the elective privilege.
1864. Dickens, in Daily Tel., 12 May, 5/5. [The player’s] is not a vocation the exerciser of which can profit by the labours of others.
2. An apparatus for exercising the limbs, etc.
1889. The Voice (N.Y.), 3 Oct., Advt., The best health exerciser on the market.
Mod. A. B. and Co’s Home-exerciser.
