mover
/ˈmuːvə/ noun B2- Someone who or something that moves.
- A dancer.
- A person employed to help people move their possessions from one residence to another. · I'm getting too old to expect my friends to schlep all my stuff for beer and pizza. I'm hiring movers this time.
- Someone who proposes a motion at a meeting.
- A product that sells well.
- A chess problem in which the solver must attain checkmate within the specified number of moves.
Plural movers
From the library
I have already recorded sentence of death, five or six times, against the movers of political conspiracies, and who can say how many daggers may be ready sharpened, and only waiting a favorable opportunity to be buried in my heart?”
But one fine day I learned that the mover of this telegraph was only a poor wretch, hired for twelve hundred francs a year, and employed all day, not in studying the heavens like an astronomer, or in gazing on the water like an angler, or even in enjoying the privilege of observing the country around him, but all his monotonous life was passed in watching his white-bellied, black-clawed fellow insect, four or five leagues distant from him.
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