Dictionary Entry
primer
primer is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who, or that which, primes. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
One who, or that which, primes
- 2noun
an instrument or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other compound for igniting a charge of gunpowder.
- 3adjective
First; original; primary.
- 4noun
Originally, a small prayer book for church service, containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a work of elementary religious instruction.
- 5noun
A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner.
- 6noun
A kind of type, of which there are two species; one, called long primer, intermediate in size between bourgeois and small pica [See Long primer]; the other, called great primer, larger than pica.
- 7noun
the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface
- 8noun
any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant
- 9noun
an introductory textbook
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