speeder
nounEtymology From speed + -er.
1
One who speeds: one who exceeds the maximum legal speed limit.
2
Dated A machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings, in spinning.
3
Rail transport, Railways, Transport A motorized railroad track crew cart.
4
A fast worker selected by a company to exemplify the rate of work generally expected; a pacesetter.
Industrial relations
- As a series of WTUL, Socialist, and garment union speakers illuminate the oppression of her life, including her misperception that because she is a "speeder," or quick worker, she profits accordingly, she eagerly receives the new truths.2001, Laura Hapke, Labor's Text: The Worker in American Fiction, page 63:
- Related terms
- speeding, speed loader