Meanings of first finder in English

As for any articles of jewelry, silver spoons, forks, thimbles, or other plate and valuables, they are pocketed off-hand by the first finder.

Between the which two islands there is a large entrance or strait, called Frobisher's Strait, after the name of our general, the first finder thereof.

In annotating Shakspeare, it would, perhaps, be asking too much of an editor to give credit to its first finder for every scrap of illustration.

The first finder chart has a field of view of 50 degrees, while the second one has a field of view of 10 degrees.

The only hope was that the first finders of the treasure afterwards used the place for the same purpose.

It was given its name because it must have seemed to its first finders at very much the extreme end of the discoverable world.