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▪ I. ranter, n.|ˈræntə(r)|
[f. rant v. + -er1.]
1. One who rants, declaims noisily or bombastically, esp. in preaching (cf. 2).
1649Cromwell Let. 14 Nov. (Carlyle), There went also, with this party, Sir Thomas Armstrong, Colonel Trevor, and most of their great ranters. 1675Traherne Chr. Ethics 339 How empty these self, but shallow-conceited ranters are,..they place all gallantry and worth in valour. 1786Gentl. Mag. LVI. i. 305 Some other ranters and rhapsodists. 1826Scott Woodst. xxii, A wild ranter in religious opinions. 1889Jessopp Coming of Friars i. 48 Rome has found a place for the dreamiest mystic or the noisiest ranter.
†2. A noisy, riotous, dissipated fellow; a rake.
1654Sir E. Nicholas in N. Papers (Camden) II. 81 A very sober and honnest understanding man, noe drinker nor ranter. 1681T. Jordan London's Joy in Heath Grocers' Comp. (1869) 548 We sing, dance, and trip it, as frolick as Ranters. 1712Addison Spect. No. 486 ⁋1 The Hazards of a Town full of Ranters and Debauchees. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xii, It was never your mother's custom, and it shall never be mine, to take up with ranters.
b. Sc. A lively singer or player.
17..Maggie Lauder (Sc. Song) 10 I'm a piper to my trade, My name is Rob the Ranter. 1812W. Tennant Anster F i. 10, I see the Ranter with bagpipe on back.
3. spec. (With capital initial; chiefly pl.).
a. Applied to the members of a sect of Antinomians which arose c 1645. Now only Hist.
1651Brome (title), The Joviall Crew, or the Devill turn'd Ranter: a Comedie, containing a true Discovery..of a Sect (lately sprung up amongst us) called Ranters. 1667L. Stucley Gospel-Glass xxxii. (1670) 319 Seekers, Ranters, and Quakers, have took occasion to cry down the Office of the Ministry. 1722B. Star tr. Mlle. de St. Phale vii. 192 Had they been born Ranters, or Papists, or Jews, they would not have changed their Religion. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) II. 217 The priests and magistrates were not more violent against him [G. Fox] than the Ranters.
b. Applied to members of the Primitive Methodist body, which originated in 1807–10.
The statement in quot. 1823 connects this use of the term with sense 2 of the vb. (cf. 2 b above).
1823H. Bourne Hist. Primitive Methodists 49 When these..meetings were closed, the praying people, in returning home, were accustomed to sing through the streets at Belper. This circumstance procured them the name of Ranters; and the name of Ranter, which first arose on this occasion [in 1814], afterwards spread very extensively. 1827Syd. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 129 The Ranters do not cost us a farthing, because they are not disqualified by ranting. 1839Penny Cycl. XV. 143/1 The Primitive Methodists, who are sometimes known as Ranters, originated in Staffordshire. 1862Sir B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. II. v. 174 Those having a too lively imagination..become Mormonites and Ranters.
▪ II. ranter, v. dial. and techn.|ˈræntə(r)|
[ad. F. rentrer, rentraire in same sense: see renter v.]
1. trans. To darn, mend. Also transf.
1673–88Ld. Fountainhall in M. P. Brown Decis. Suppl. (1826) III. 86 (Jam.) He bade the defender ranter the two ends of an inconsistency he was urging together. 1808in Jamieson. a1825in Forby. 1848in Evans Leicest. Gloss.
2. To join (two edges of cloth) with fine stitching (see also quot. 1902).
1902M. Prince Browne Pract. Work of Dressmaking & Tailoring II. iii. 87 Rantering.—This is a stitch used for joining cloth, and the two edges to be joined are put together—level..with the right side of each piece facing; they must then be neatly ‘back-stitched’ together by hand, as near to the edge of the cloth as possible... A cloth which is too thin to join by ‘fine drawing’, can be ‘rantered’ together. 1933J. E. Liberty Pract. Tailoring iii. 24 (caption) Seaming and rantering. An alternative to stoting for use on loose materials (tweeds, etc.).
Hence † ranter-drawed a., darned. Obs.
1655J. Barnes Gerania (1675) 69 His very cloaths were so neatly ranter-draw'd, that no man living cou'd ever discern they had been torn. |