noun an inspector of leather.
2. searcher ·noun an implement for sampling butter; a butter trier.
3. searcher ·noun an instrument for feeling after calculi in the bladder, ·etc.
4. searcher ·noun an instrument for examining the bore of a cannon, to detect cavities.
5. searcher ·noun one who, or that which, searhes or examines; a seeker; an inquirer; an examiner; a trier.
6. searcher ·noun an officer of the customs whose business it is to search ships, merchandise, luggage, ·etc.
7. searcher ·noun formerly, an officer in london appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death.