tirador

From tirar +‎ -dor.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ti.ɾəˈdo/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ti.ɾaˈdoɾ/

tirador m (plural tiradors, feminine tiradora)

1. shooter
2. (sports) fencer

   Synonym: esgrimidor

3. (sports) striker, shooter

   Synonym: xutador

4. slingshot (US), catapult (UK)
5. handle, knob (of a door, drawer, etc.)

• franctirador

• “tirador” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

tira +‎ -dor

tirador

1. a slingshot; a Y-shaped stick with an elastic sling between the arms used for shooting small projectiles
2. (biblical) a sling; an instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other; a shepherd's sling
3. a shooter; someone who shoots something, especially with a gun
4. a hitman; a contract killer
5. a gunman; a criminal armed with a gun, especially a professional killer

tirador

1. to shoot something or someone with a slingshot or sling

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tirador.

Attested since the 15th century. From tirar (“to shoot; to pull”) +‎ -dor.

• IPA^(key): /tiɾaˈðoɾ/

tirador m (plural tiradores)

1. shooter
   • c1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 95:

     Sagitario que quer dizer tanto cõmo [aseetador] ou tirador de séétas

     Sagitario, which means "arrower" or arrow shooter

2. door handle
3. rafter

   Synonym: cango

4. (archaic, business) tenderer
5. slingshot

   Synonym: lanzapedras

• tirar

• “tirador” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “tirador” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “tirador” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tirador” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

tirador m (plural tiradores, feminine tiradora, feminine plural tiradoras)

1. shooter, rifleman

• tirar

tirador m (plural tiradores)

1. door handle

• “tirador”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from Spanish tirador, or analytically tira +‎ -dor.

• Hyphenation: ti‧ra‧dor
• IPA^(key): /tiɾaˈdoɾ/, [tɪ.ɾɐˈdoɾ]

tiradór

1. slingshot

   Synonyms: saltik, (Batangas) paltik, (Marinduque) palapatik

2. hitman; contract killer
3. gunman; shooter