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Trainer   /trˈeɪnər/   Listen
noun
Trainer  n.  
1.
One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength.
2.
A militiaman when called out for exercise or discipline. (U. S.)





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"Trainer" Quotes from Famous Books



... viens pas trainer, dans vos riants asiles, Les regrets du passe, les songes du futur: J'y viens vivre, et, couche sous vos berceaux fertiles, Abriter mon ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
... possibly even with some outside examiner, might be useful. But the present system bids fair to degenerate into mere horse-racing, and I shall not wonder if, sooner or later, the two-year olds entered for the race have to be watched by their trainer that they may not be overfed or drugged against the day of the race. It has come to this, that schools are bidding for clever boys in order to run them in the races, and in France, I read, that parents actually extort money ...
— Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. • F. Max Mueller
... enough and pretty enough; but about this college business. I always say that if it ain't in a colt the trainer can't put it there. My niece—that's Mrs. Bassett, Marian's mother—wants Marian to be an intellectual woman,—the kind that reads papers on the poets before literary clubs. Mrs. Bassett runs a woman's club in Fraserville and she's ...
— A Hoosier Chronicle • Meredith Nicholson
... every description could be seen, to be sold by pretty womenfolk. One stage had been fitted up for variety performances, while on another a circus was to be seen, in which a number of private soldiers, disguised as wild beasts, were to play leading parts under the eyes and whip of the trainer—none other than Captain Kahle. These men had been drilled for the purpose ...
— A Little Garrison - A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day • Fritz von der Kyrburg
... outside of town, in a large pasture, circus tents were pitched, in which the usual one-ringed circus was to be shown ... and they had six lions in a cage ... advertised as Nubian lions, the largest and fiercest of their kind ... their trainer never going in among them except at peril of his life. A gold medal was offered to anyone who would go in among the lions alone, and make a speech to the audience from ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp


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