filler

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: fill=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

filler, n. 

•  One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling.  [1913 Webster]

  "'T is mere filler, to stop a vacancy in the hexameter."  [1913 Webster]

  "They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work."  [1913 Webster]
•  A composition, as of powdered silica and oil, used to fill the pores and grain of wood before applying paint, varnish, etc.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  Any standing tree or standard higher than the surrounding coppice in the form of forest known as coppice under standards. Chiefly used in the pl.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

filler, n. [From 1st Fill.].

 A thill horse.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

filler, n.
1 material or an object used to fill a cavity or increase bulk.
2 an item filling space in a newspaper etc.
3 a person or thing that fills.

Idiom

filler cap a cap closing the filling-pipe leading to the petrol tank of a motor vehicle.

THESAURUS

filler

IC analysis, appositive, attribute, attributive, bidet, bush, bushing, carriage horse, cart horse, cavalry horse, complement, construction modifier, cutting, deep structure, direct object, doubling, doublure, draft horse, dray horse, driving horse, facing, fill horse, filling, form-function unit, function, gigster, hack, hackney, hunter, immediate constituent analysis, indirect object, inlay, inlayer, insole, interlineation, jument, lead, leader, levels, liner, lining, modifier, mount, object, pack horse, packing, padding, palfrey, phrase structure, plow horse, pole horse, polo pony, post-horse, predicate, qualifier, ranks, remount, rider, riding horse, road horse, roadster, rouncy, saddle horse, saddler, shaft horse, shallow structure, slot, slot and filler, stalking-horse, strata, structure, stuffing, subject, sumpter, sumpter horse, surface structure, syntactic analysis, syntactic structure, syntactics, syntax, tagmeme, thill horse, thiller, underlying structure, wadding, wainscot, wheeler, wheelhorse, word arrangement, word order, workhorse