tender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛn.də(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈtɛn.dɚ/
ipa: /ˈtɛn.də/
rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
homophone: tinder (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: tenders
Etymology: From tend + -er. Compare attender (“one who attends”).
Senses: glosses: Someone who tends or waits on someone.
examples: text: Half the coal was out of the tender, half the fire out of the box, half the trucks were off the track, so violent was the stopping.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 201:
text: Of locomotive interest was "an engine house for spare engines which was about 60 ft. × 51 ft.; on the outside of this was an immense turntable sufficient to turn the engine and tender at once."
ref: 1944 July and August, Reginald B. Fellows, “The Failure of Bricklayers Arms as a Passenger Station—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 211:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
examples: text: submarine tender
text: destroyer tender
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
examples: text: The transfer by tender of some 1,300 mail bags was effected smartly, and the "Ocean Mails Special" train was ready at 9.19 a.m.
ref: 1944 July and August, Charles E. Lee, “The "City of Truro"”, in Railway Magazine, page 202:
text: A passenger on Cunard's Queen Elizabeth died this week following an accident while boarding from a tender (the small boats that carry passengers from ship to shore or port when the cruise ship anchors at sea). […] Gangway ramps can, on occasion, break free of either the ship or the tender, causing passengers or crew to fall into the sea.
ref: 2015 April 1, Teresa Machan, “Queen Elizabeth passenger dies boarding a cruise ship tender [print version: Queen Elizabeth passenger dies after boarding mishap, 4 April 2015, p. T5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Travel), archived from the original on 13 Apr 2015:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: dinghy
glosses: A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
examples: text: Now, with scallop populations under pressure, Mr. Sewell is one of only about 30 active scallop divers left in his state. He and his tender, Jason Simmons, have harvested scallops together each winter and early spring for the past seven years. The rest of the year he catches bluefin tuna and dives for sea urchins.
ref: 2015 August 18, Christoph Gelfand, “'Diving for Scallops'”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2022:
text: The first of two willful violations OSHA found were the diver and dive tender "performing dredging operations in a canal with zero-visibility, did not have the experience and training in the use of tools, equipment, systems, techniques, and emergency procedures which are required to perform these underwater tasks in a safe manner."
ref: 2022 October 19, David J. Neal, “Broward company 'ignored safety standards and a young worker has died,' OSHA says”, in Miami Herald, Miami, F.L.: McClatchy, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2023:
topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A member of a diving team who assists a diver during a dive but does not themselves go underwater.
glosses: Ellipsis of water tender (“firefighting apparatus”).
Derived terms: word: airship tender
word: balloon tender
word: brake tender
word: budtender
word: buoy tender
sense: one who tends
word: bartender
word: seaplane tender
sense: smaller boat used for transportation, naval ship that functions as a mobile base
word: tenderman
word: sub tender
word: tender cab
word: tender engine
word: tender-first
word: tender loco
word: tender locomotive
word: water tender