framer
/ˈfɹeɪmɚ/ noun
Forms framers
- noun A person who makes frames for paintings.
- noun A person who assembles the frame of a ship.
- noun (US) A person who assembles the timbers of a wood-framed building.
- noun A person who writes a new law.
- noun (historical, US politics, sometimes capitalized, usually in the plural) Any of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. “the Framers of the Constitution”
- noun A person who frames another, attempting to have them convicted of a crime they did not commit.
- noun (Internet) A person who embeds another person's web pages in an HTML frame, so that they misleadingly appear to be part of the framing site.
Etymology
From frame + -er.
Webster’s 1913
- noun One who frames; as, the framer of a building; the framers of the Constitution.
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “framer”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details