Synonyms of the word

fireman

• n. (firefighting) Someone (implied male) who is skilled in the work of fighting fire.
• n. (rail transport) A man who keeps the fire going underneath a steam boiler (originally, shoveling coal…
• n. (rail transport) By extension of the above, an assistant on any locomotive, whether steam-powered or not.
• n. (baseball) A relief pitcher.

defender

• n. Someone who defends people or property.
• n. (law) A lawyer who represents defendants.
• n. (Scotland, law) A defendant in a civil action.
• n. A fighter who repels an attack.
• n. (sports) One of the players whose primary task is to prevent the opposition from scoring.

fire-eater

• n. A performer who pretends to swallow fire.
• n. (figuratively) A quarrelsome or belligerent person.
• n. (US, historical) An extreme partisan for the South before the US Civil War.

firefighter

• n. A person who puts out fires.

guardian

• n. Someone who guards, watches over, or protects.
• n. (law) A person legally responsible for a minor (in loco parentis).
• n. (law) A person legally responsible for an incompetent person.
• n. A superior in a Franciscan monastery.
• n. (video games) A major or final enemy; boss.

hurler

• n. Agent noun of hurl; someone who hurls or throws.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s) The pitcher.
• n. (hurling) Someone who participates in the sport of hurling.

jack

• n. A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, e.g. screw jack, scissor jack,…
• n. A man or men in general.
• n. A male animal.
• n. A male ass.
• n. (card games) A playing card with the letter "J" and the image of a knave or prince on it, the eleventh…
• n. (cricket) The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings, derived from the playing card.
• n. (archaic) A knave (a servant or later, a deceitful man).
• n. Mangifera caesia, related to the mango tree.
• n. A surface-mounted connector for electrical, especially telecommunications, equipment.
• n. (sports) A target ball in bowls, etc; a jack-ball.
• n. (games) A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
• n. (colloquial, euphemistic) Nothing, jack shit.
• n. (nautical) A small flag at the bow of a ship.
• n. (nautical) A naval ensign flag flown from the main mast, mizzen mast, or the aft-most major mast of (especially)…
• n. (military) A coarse and cheap medieval coat of defense, especially one made of leather.
• n. A penny with a head on both sides, used for cheating.
• n. (slang) Money.
• n. (slang, Appalachians) A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
• n. The freshwater pike, green pike or pickerel.
• n. A large California rockfish, the bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis.
• n. Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae.
• n. (obsolete, nautical) A sailor, a jacktar.
• n. (obsolete) A pitcher or can of waxed leather, supposed to resemble a jackboot; a black-jack.
• n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A drinking measure holding half a pint or, sometimes, a quarter of a pint.
• n. A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine.
• n. Female ended electrical connector (see Electrical connector).
• n. Electrical connector in a fixed position (see Gender of connectors and fasteners).
• v. (transitive) To use a jack.
• v. (transitive) To raise or increase.
• v. To produce by freeze distillation; to distil (an alcoholic beverage) by freezing it and removing the ice…
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To steal something, typically an automobile. Shortened form of carjacking.
• v. (intransitive) To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
• n. (slang, baseball) A home run.
• v. (transitive, slang, baseball) To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field,…
• n. A coarse mediaeval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
• n. A jackfruit tree.

laborer

• n. One who uses body strength instead of intellectual power to earn a wage, usually hourly.

labourer

• n. British spelling standard spelling of laborer.

pitcher

• n. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.
• n. (baseball, softball), the player who delivers the ball to the batter.
• n. (chiefly US, colloquial) The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter…
• n. (obsolete) A sort of crowbar for digging.
• n. A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water…
• n. (botany) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant.

play

• v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose…
• v. (ergative) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
• v. (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love, fornicate; to have sex.
• v. (transitive) To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
• v. (heading, transitive, intransitive) To produce music or theatre.
• v. (heading) To behave in a particular way.
• v. (intransitive) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion;…
• v. (intransitive) To move gaily; to disport.
• v. (transitive) To put in action or motion.
• v. (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
• v. (transitive) To manipulate or deceive someone.
• n. (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
• n. (uncountable) Similar activity, in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
• n. (uncountable, ethology) "Repeated, incompletely functional behavior differing from more serious versions…
• n. The conduct, or course of a game.
• n. (countable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
• n. (countable) (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
• n. (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters…
• n. (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
• n. (countable) A major move by a business.
• n. (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other…
• n. (uncountable) The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely.
• n. (uncountable, informal) Sexual role-playing.
• n. (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.

protector

• n. Someone who protects or guards, by assignment or on their own initiative.
• n. A device or mechanism which is designed to protect.
• n. One who prevents interference.
• n. A state or other subject under international law, exercising a protectorate over another subject in international…
• n. (Britain, historical) One having the care of the kingdom during the king's minority; a regent.
• n. (Roman Catholicism) A cardinal, from one of the more considerable Roman Catholic nations, who looks after…

reliever

• n. (baseball) A relief pitcher.
• n. Someone who fills in for another.

shielder

• n. Agent noun of shield: one who shields.

stoker

• n. A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship who stokes coal in the boilers.
• n. A device for stoking a fire; a poker.
• n. A device that feeds coal into a furnace etc automatically.
• n. A person who pedals on the back of a tandem bicycle.

twirler

• n. Something that twirls.
• n. Someone who twirls something.