resorter

noun

1. One who resorts, or has recourse (to something)

   “He is a frequent resorter to medicinal aids and appliance to combat old age and infirmity , but it is always God Who prescribes for him .”

   “In Aristophanes' Wasps, Cleon loses his role as a frequent resorter to charges of conspiracy to elderly jurors, described as his ardent followers and fans, as well as to ordinary Athenians.”

   “He was a "frequent resorter” to John Digby, now Lord Digby, Privy Councilor and the person the king relied on for the Spanish marriage negotiations.”

2. A frequenter.

   “As 'a common resorter to the houses of Popish recusants and a scoffer of goodness and good men' [i.e. Puritans] he could expect no less from the parliamentary authorities.”

   “Furthermore, the brothel's mistress is 'bound' to this governor (60); by implication, Lysimachus is a regular 'resorter', all too familiar with the iniquitous business in hand.”

   “One of Katherine's neighbors called her "a lewd and idle housewife, a common resorter to alehouses & other places where dancing is both by day and by night.””

3. One who travels somewhere for recreation; a tourist or holidayer.

   “[…] for this land of the north, outside of a few centers, has hardly been touched by the resorters, so vast are the uncamped and uncottaged stretches.”

   “He describes the summer resorter as being one of the following kinds: a "roughing-it" or back-to-nature resorter; a rest-seeking resorter; a student resorter, much as those attending Bay View or Interlocken; and a fashionable resorter.”

   “A favorite Maine story tells of the resorter on the road from Bangor to Bar Harbor who stops his car and asks a local if this is the right way:”

4. A person who runs a resort

   “When all has been said and done, the crucial problem of the resorter is to attract the tourist to his particular resort .”

   “A resorter cannot continually maintain and update his facilities when interest rates eat up any and all the net the improvement would realize.”

   “On the other side of the coin is the resorter who likes the lifestyle so much that he fishes all day, becomes oblivious to the piles of trash around the resort, and ignores the needs of his guests.”

5. The process by which property that was previously transferred or granted to a new owner reverts or is reclaimed by the original owner or that person's heirs.

   “And even if the reversion is understood in such a case to be the donor and his heirs, a resorter to a stranger ought not to be understood so widely.”

6. Some or something that sorts previously sorted items.

   “Unsalable fruit (over 20 percent of that reaching the resorter) is hauled away and dumped.”

   “The rules of the system, then, as they appear to the artist, will differ from the rules of the system as they appear to the sorter or resorter; the two will deal in differing units.”

   “If a pallet is found to contain a defective product it is broken down and checked again by resorters.”