[f. SURROUND v. + -ER1.] One who or that which surrounds.
1683. Kennett, trans. Erasm. on Folly, 92. They fence themselves in with so many surrounders [orig. tanto agmine] of Magisterial Definitions.
1789. Mme. D’Arblay, Diary, 18 Jan. I had no plan but to save appearances to the surrounders.
1829. Sir W. Napier, Penins. War, VII. iii. (Rtldg.), I. 345. The troops to be surrounded were more … numerous than the surrounders.
1830. W. Taylor, Hist. Surv. Germ. Poetry, II. 1. Some poets may learn of their ordinary surrounders.
1890. Gunter, Miss Nobody, ii. (1891), 23. ‘Not play in it!’ cry several of his surrounders.
