(n.) One who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by drying, salting, smoking, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper examines three different sets of restraints that have evolved in three different regions of Thailand to protect supernaturalist curers from excessive accusations that could lead to harassment.
(2) It is then possible to differentiate between the shaman as primarily the mediator between the supernatural powers and man, and the medicine-man as primarily the curer of diseases through traditional techniques.
(3) In the ensuing ethnic dialog, Meratus shamans are cast as perpetrators as well as curers of the kind of illness-causing sorcery that makes Banjar most vulnerable.
(4) There appears to be little or no direct communication between local competitors among Thailand's traditional curers.
(5) He spent some time in the house of Daryatmo, a local dukun (or curer of supernatural problems) who became the first guru in Suharto's life.
(6) Both types can be provided by native curers, whereas only the former is expected from urban based general practitioners; we show how Malay parents in fact partly relate to medical doctors as if they were traditional healers.
(7) Especially in urbanizing areas, Buddhist and Muslim Thais hold in the highest esteem traditional curers whose knowledge derives from patient experimentation and the study of ancient texts.
(8) Warao herbal curers make use of more than 100 plant species from which they prepare 259 remedies.
(9) This world view motivates two conflicting modalities of medical practice: one based on the magic powers of curers (dukun), the others on the religiously validated powers of Sufi saints.
(10) The paper concludes with a discussion of the competition found among a specific group of curer-magicians, namely, Thai-Buddhist monk-practitioners.
(11) Given the often grave nature of such accusations, how have supernaturalist curers been spared from persecution during times of adversity?
(12) Rivalry among neighboring curer-magicians is so pervasive that diagnostic decisions sometimes depend in part on the relative status of previous healers on a case.
(13) Southern Muslim curers are generally mystics or spirit-mediums whose direct channels of communication with the supernatural convey remedies for afflictions but also provide guidelines for maintaining sociocultural separatism.
(14) Most curers describe themselves as specialists in one or another of these modes, but at the same time, many also recognize multiple levels of causation and multi-modal treatment alternatives for any specific affliction.
(15) He spent some time in the house of Daryatmo, a local dukun (curer of supernatural problems), who became the first guru in his life.
(16) This premise blinds researchers to differences between the medical epistemologies of lay persons and curers.
(17) These difficulties can be avoided by considering medicine as a local cultural system of symbolic meanings anchored in institutions and interpersonal interactions, and by separating the medical beliefs and activities of laypersons from those of curers.
Curler
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, curls.
(n.) A player at the game called curling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because space was tight and we wanted to do justice to these things, I put a interview we had with curler Eve Muirhead back a week."
(2) Italy hit the post for a second time, via Diamanti's left-footed curler, and will think they could have spared themselves extra time.
(3) The Spaniard attempted a curler beyond Boaz Myhill, aimed to go inside the goalkeeper’s right post, but it went wide.
(4) If he did, it was wonderful skill - he overlapped in characteristic style and, from a preposteropusly acute angle and with the keeper anticipating a cross, he swirled it into the net at the near post, one of the most improbable, superbly executed curlers since Nelhinho in 1978.
(5) He cleverly took some of Amy Adams's sideboob wardrobe and Bradley Cooper's curlers and turned them into a lesson about how we shouldn't get distracted by "fashionable" issues, by which I strongly suspect he means such silly little trends as believing addiction is an illness or the legalisation of gay marriage, which, as you may recall, he worried could be the right's Stalingrad .
(6) Much prefer the old curler 12.43pm GMT 24 min: Leeds are enjoying a long period of possession now.
(7) A few exchanges later, Birsa finally gets on the ball, cutting inside from the right wing and attempting a curler towards the bottom left.
(8) Premier League 2015-16 review: goal of the season | Gregg Bakowski Read more David Hytner Cuco Martina v Arsenal, a first-time, outside-of-the-boot curler 19 minutes into his full league debut for Southampton.
(9) Nasri cuts inside from the left and, on the edge of the area, unleashes a purler of a curler towards the bottom-right corner.
(10) 57 min Iniesta plays an inviting pass to Villa, whose rudimentary left-footed curler from the edge of the box is easily saved by the sprawling Benaglio.
(11) He tries a curler, but it wafts into the path of Samuel, who clears easily.
(12) Sunderland , though, could easily have gone three up when, having dribbled beyond two markers, Johnson's curler hit a post with Krul beaten.
(13) David Silva striking an upright with an exquisite left-foot curler from the angle of the area was the highlight of an oddly scrappy first half.
(14) His early raids were down the right; now he bombs down the left, cuts inside, and lays off to Hamsik, who attempts a curler in the top-right corner.
(15) 32 min After Russia work the ball nicely around the edge of Spain's area, Pavlyuchenko tries a Whelan-in-the-Milk-Cup-of-1983 curler that Casillas tips round the post.
(16) Gradel found Pugh in space on the left and he sent Jenkinson skidding off into the distance before bending a sumptuous curler past Randolph.
(17) A Marcelo curler beat Hart for a first equaliser before Karim Benzema answered Kolarov's strike and Ronaldo stepped up to grab the glory as the world's second-best player should.
(18) And then I went through a period when I went to sleep with great big curlers.
(19) Lloris had to palm away Campbell’s left-foot curler for the far corner and Giroud had his chances.
(20) It broke to Buchwald – the bloody centre-back – who controlled it calmly 20 yards from goal and then, using Steven as a screen, placed a lovely curler to the left of Shilton that bounced up on to the outside of the post!