Re-pēat'er, n.

n. One who, or that which, repeats; specifically, (a.) one who recites or rehearses. (b.) A watch that strikes the hours at will at the touch of a spring. (c.) A fire-arm that may be discharged many times in quick succession; especially, a form of fire-arm so constructed that the charges are successively introduced, by an action of the lock, from a chamber containing them, into the breech, and fired, or are discharged from a revolving chamber at the breech. See REVOLVER.