Noun

One student is the chaser and the other is the chasee. Give the chasee three seconds to get away and then allow the chaser to attempt to tag the chasee.

"[I]t looked like The Fellow was the best steeplechaser in many years. He'd earned the best speed rating I'd ever given a chaser ."

"Wild Risk...had his greatest successes as a steeplechaser rather than a flat racer... It is rare indeed that a 'chaser - even one as good as wild risk - makes a good flat sire."

"Oh, that final furlong! It can be both agony and ecstasy. Anyone who doubts that should have seen the television close-up of Jim Lewis as his great chaser Best Mate came up the final hill at Cheltenham in 2004 to clich a hat-trick of Gold Cups. ... Best mate is the best steeplechaser we have seen for years and all being well will be at the Cheltenham Festival again in 2005 to try and make it four Gold Cups."

"Mr B., heraldic chaser , says there are several processes in making heraldy plates, sketching, engraving, embossing, chasing and burnishing." (page 100)

"H. & C., manufacturers of cloth and gilt buttons, say it requires some weeks to learn to chase the gilt buttons, which are done with small metal tools and a hammer. Chasers are paid by the peice, working ten hours a day, and some can earn $1 a day."

"Flat chasing in sunken or low relief is a technique by which the ornament is formed by beating down the ground from the front. This is done in essentially the same manner as repoussé work, where the ornament appears in high relief, but the design is punched from the face of the silver plate. ... Sometimes, instead of applying a freehand design, the chaser covers the greased suface with a paper pattern in which the design is pricked with pins."

"Chasing in general can be distinguised from engraving, in that the design can be seen on the reverse or inside of the pieces. Having outlined the pattern on the surface, the chaser cuts and at the same time slightly depresses the surface. A light hammer can be used in this process also."

"In Fig. i is shown one of the chasers in the position which it occupies in cutting a thread."

"Many screw threads are also finished completely with chasers' of this type, although they are not adapted for extremely acurate work unless the teeth are ground after hardening, because the pitch of the ' chaser teeth is affected more or less by..."

"The category of thread cutting tools inlcudes both the single-point and multiple-point [chaser type] lathe cutters."

"Cowboys in high-heeled boots teeter along its sidewalks, or push the swinging doors aside for a shot or two — straight, no chaser ."

"...on one end known as a Bardon choker hook, to facilitate making a loop. It stays tight and makes it unnecessary for the "chaser " or "choker setter" to follow the "turn" to the landing as might have to be done if tongs are used"

"A chaser' follows the logs to the landing, often riding in a rigging sled hollowed out of a log, which is attached to the rear log. The ' chaser can signal to the road engineer at any point..."

"and the chaser is the fellow whose job it is to follow along after these logs to..."

"The rigging slinger'' hooks the chokers to the main line' the ''chaser unhooks them at the spar tree."

A chaser was the man who unhooked the logs that were yarded in to the spar tree.

"When the turn arrives at the landing, the chaser' directs the engineer where to drop the turn by hand signals. The ' chaser then unhooks the chokers, gets in the clear, and singlas to reel in the haulback line".

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