A custom-house officer employed in taking an account of goods to be exported. Also, see gun-searcher.
·noun An inspector of leather. II. Searcher ·noun An implement for sampling butter; a butter trier....
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
An iron instrument with several sharp-pointed prongs and a wooden handle: it is used to find whether...
The Sailor's Word-Book
A steel-pronged tool to search for defects in the bore of a gun. ...