restrainer
- n a chemical that is added to a photographic developer in order to retard development and reduce the amount of fog on a film
- n a person who directs and restrains
- This is the organization which turned up in former years with a cow-tail restrainer (to prevent milkers from being switched); a funnel to facilitate the insertion of keys in .
- This has added a hard-to-master new responsibility to the job description of Fed chairman: restrainer of financial-market euphoria.
- Ahead of her, a door opened, and the heifer ran forward--into the waiting arms of a "V-conveyor restrainer," which held her on both sides and immobilized her legs.