evacuator

English

Etymology

evacuate +‎ -or

Noun

evacuator (plural evacuators)

  1. One who evacuates; a nullifier.
    • Henry Hammond
      In which words sure He doth not pitch on the name of scribes and Pharisees, peculiarly as those that were the greatest evacuators of the law by their own hypocritical practices or false glosses in some particulars […]
  2. An agent for emptying, especially an instrument for removing fragments of stone from the bladder after litholapaxy.

Latin

Verb

ēvacuātor

  1. second-person singular future passive imperative of ēvacuō
  2. third-person singular future passive imperative of ēvacuō
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