/get"euhr/ , n.
1. a person or thing that gets.
2. any substance introduced into a partial vacuum, as the interior of a vacuum tube or an incandescent lamp, to combine chemically with the residual gas in order to increase the vacuum.
3. Chiefly Canadian. poisoned bait used to exterminate wolves, gophers, and other pests from farm areas.
[ 1325-75; ME; see GET, -ER 1 ]