puffer

One that puffs.

A quilted, fitted jacket filled with down or other material for warmth.

One who puffs; one who praises with exaggerated and interested commendation.

One who attends a sale by auction for the purpose of raising the price and exciting the eagerness of bidders to the advantage of the seller. Also called bonnet and whitebonnet.

A fish that swells or puffs up; specifically, any member of either of the plectognath families Tetrodontidæ and Diodontidæ, all of whose species, some eighty in number, have the habit of inflating themselves with air which they swallow; a swell-fish or globe-fish; a blower.

A porpoise or puffing-pig.

In weaving, a vat in which linen and cotton cloth is cleansed by boiling; a bucking-keir.

One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant commendation.

One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder.