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One who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments.
A device used to trim.
(nautical) A member of the crew who trims the sails.
Someone who fluctuates between opposing factions, political parties etc., according to current interest, a flip-flopper.
(architecture) A beam into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys.
(shipping, historical) A person employed to rearrange the coal in the hold of a vessel, so that it fills the vessel without forming a conical blockage.
(mining, historical) A device for storing coal in gradually increasing piles made by building up at the point of the cone or top of the prism.
(fishing) A float bearing a baited hook and line, used in fishing for pike.
(electronics) An adjustable electrical component.
(dated) One who or that which trims, or rebukes or reproves; a scold.
(cricket) A fast, high-quality delivery by the bowler, especially one that results in a dismissal of a batter by removing the bails without hitting the stumps.

Thus Halifax was a Trimmer on principle.
Lady Margaret Beaufort's third husband, Lord Stanley, an accomplished political trimmer, gave fair words but little commitment: the vast, well-armed Stanley retinues shadowed Henry's route southeast to the battlefield and waited, detached, to see how the chips fell.

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