facer
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It was clear that he had had an awful facer.
From The Sailor by J. C. Snaith
Then you must put a plucky face on it; she mustn't see you cave in after the first facer.
From At Large by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
"You look as if you had been given a facer, old man," he said.
From Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast by Charles Clark Munn
It was the worst kind of a facer.
From The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel by Guy Wetmore Carryl
How one admires a woman who takes an unexpected facer without making a scene!
From The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel by John Strange Winter
The Macgillicuddies support the Seceding interest, and deliver facers in the teeth of all establishments whatsoever.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
Howsomnever, they didn’t come to facers, only passed a little jaw fore and aft.”
From The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper
It is claimed that these facers constitute the best possible protection against fire.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
“I am not going to cry ‘I take a licking!’ because Fortune has caught me a couple of facers without a return.
From For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War by Walter Paget
