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muffler (iou)



muffler noun. M16.
[from MUFFLE verb + -ER1.]
a. Hist. A sort of kerchief or scarf worn by women in the 16th and 17th cents. to cover part of the face and the neck. M16.
b. A bandage for blindfolding a person. L16-E17.
c. A wrap or scarf worn round the neck or throat for warmth; gen. anything used to wrap a part of the body. L16.
V. Nabokov Shovelling the snow in my shirt-sleeves, a voluminous black and white muffler around my neck.
a. A boxing glove; = MUFFLE noun2 2. M18.
b. A glove, a mitten. Cf. MUFFLE noun2 1. E19.
c. Hist. A leather muff used to bind the hands of a mentally disordered person. M19.
Something that deadens sound; spec. (a) in a piano, a pad of felt inserted between the hammers and the strings; (b) in a steam engine, a device for silencing the escape of steam. Also (chiefly N. Amer.), a silencer on a vehicle's exhaust system. M19.
G. E. Evans Attaching..mufflersleather padsto the striking side of the clappers. S. Brill The day before the tail pipe and muffler had broken off.