blazer

noun14

1. •
   A tailored jacket, cut like a suit jacket but worn without matching trousers or skirt, and either in a solid colour (especially navy, often with metal, crested, or otherwise contrasting buttons), or in the colours/stripes and often with the badge on the breast pocket of a school, club, or team, whose membership it signals.
2. •
   Any suit-style jacket for women.
3. •
   (slang, figurative) An older member of a sports club, often with conservative or old-fashioned views.
4. •
   (figurative) A person or thing that blazes a trail; a pioneer, a trailblazer.

   • a blazer of paths
5. •
   A thing which blazes or shines brightly.
6. •
   (informal) A very bright or hot day.

   • The day comes—a blazer, cloudless blue, not a breath stirring the pine-branches; […] — 1875
7. •
   (US, slang) One who blazes (“smokes marijuana”); a stoner.
8. •
   (US, figurative) Someone or something that draws attention.

   • T' other gal is likely enough, but the mother's a blazer! Whoever marries Emmy, had better look out for his ears. The mill-clack is nothing to the old woman's tongue. — 1846
9. •
   (US, Canada) A dish used to cook directly over the coals of a brazier, or the flame of a chafing dish lamp.
10. •
    (slang, figurative) Often in the form run a blazer: a con, a swindle.

    • The disfigurement was so plainly obvious that it seemed evident the rustlers planned to run a blazer on us by undertaking to cut them [cattle] on the spring round-up under cover of a gun bluff. — 1908
11. •
    (Northern-England) A flat metal piece placed against a fire grate to cause the fire to blaze by creating a draught; a blower.
12. •
    (no longer used) A comet.
13. •
    (no longer used) One who blazes (“announces or proclaims something publicly”); an announcer, a herald, a proclaimer.

    • To have their blazers abroad to see out their virtues, and to prepare their friends in every Province. — 1619
14. •
    (no longer used) Synonym of blazoner (“one who blazons (“describes”) coats of arms; a herald”).