dispeopler

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From dispeople +‎ -er.

Noun[edit]

dispeopler (plural dispeoplers)

  1. One who, or that which, dispeoples; a depopulator.
    • 1713, John Gay, “Rural Sports. A Georgic. Inscribed to Mr. [Alexander] Pope.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, volume I, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], and Bernard Lintot, […], published 1720, →OCLC, page 16, lines 261–264:
      I, nor chuſe to bear / The thieviſh nightly net, not barbed ſpear: / Nor drain I ponds the golden carp to take, / Nor trovvle for pikes, diſpeoplers of the lake.
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