mover

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

MOVER, noun The person or thing that gives motion or impels to action. 1. He or that which moves. 2. A proposer; one that offers a proposition, or recommends any thing for consideration or adoption; as the mover of a resolution in a legislative body.
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