douser

noun

dous·​er

variants or less commonly dowser

-sə(r) 

-zə-

plural -s

: one that douses

specifically : a fireproof shutter that controls or intercepts the light reaching the film aperture of a motion-picture mechanism (as a projector) or of a stereopticon

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