damper

From damp +‎ -er.

• (US) enPR: dămp′ər, IPA^(key): /ˈdæmpɚ/

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damper (plural dampers)

Tuned mass oscillations damper.

1. Something that damps or checks:
   1. A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air.
   2. A contrivance (sordine), as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.
   3. Something that kills the mood.
      • (Can we date this quote?) W. Black

        Nor did Sabrina′s presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities.

   4. A device that decreases the oscillations of a system.
2. (chiefly Australia) Bread made from a basic recipe of flour, water, milk, and salt, but without yeast.
   • 1827, Peter Cunningham, Two Years in New South Wales, ii.190, quoted in G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, 1978, →ISBN,

     The farm-men usually bake their flour into flat cakes, which they call dampers, and cook these in the ashes.

   • 1938, William Ferguson and John Patten, ‘Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights!’, in Heiss & Minter (eds.), Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 31:

     You hypocritically claim that you are trying to ‘protect’ us; but your modern policy of ‘protection’ (so-called) is killing us off just as surely as the pioneer policy of giving us poisoned damper and shooting us down like dingoes!

damper

1. comparative form of damp: more damp

• deramp, ramped

A calque of the English steamer.

damper c (singular definite damperen, plural indefinite dampere)

1. steamer, steamboat, steamship

• dampskib

See dampe.

damper

1. present of dampe

• “damper” in Den Danske Ordbog

From damp +‎ -er

damper m (definite singular damperen, indefinite plural dampere, definite plural damperne)

1. a steamer (steamship, steamboat)

• dampbåt, dampskip

• hjuldamper

damper m

1. indefinite plural of damp

damper

1. present of dampe

• dampar (Nynorsk)

• “damper” in The Bokmål Dictionary.