One who backs or supports another in a contest.
One who aids or assists another; especially, one who bets in favor of a person, animal, or thing in a contest.
" Give it to 'em, right and left, Guinea," cried Fid: " here is one who will come in as a backer so soon as he has stopped the grog of the marine." "The Red Rover", James Fenimore Cooper
" Give it to 'em, right and left, Guinea," cried Fid: " here is one who will come in as a backer so soon as he has stopped the grog of the marine."
To bring out, as a kernel from its enveloping husk: to uncover: to make manifest or plain: to disentangle: to solve. " Elucidating what was obscure, enucleating what was hard."- Dr. Sclater. ...