departer

depart +‎ -er

departer (plural departers)

1. Someone who departs.
   • 1961, British Columbia Provincial Museum, Report of the Provincial Museum of Natural History, page 22:

     Late departers (late May) are surf scoters, while harlequins and white-winged scoters may occur in summer.

2. (obsolete, metallurgy) Someone who refines metals by separation.

• “departer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• pretrade, reparted