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sumpter, n. arch.|ˈsʌm(p)tə(r)|
Forms: 4–7 sompter, 4, 8 sumter, 5 sometour, 6 sumtar, 7 som(e)ter, 4– sumpter. See also sumpture2.
[a. OF. som(m)etier = Pr. saumatier (cf. med.L. saumaterius):—pop.L. *sagmatārius, f. sagmat-, sagma sum n.2: see -er2.]
†1. The driver of a pack-horse. Obs.
c1320Brasenose Coll. Muniments 52. 49 (MS.) Robert the Sumpter. 13..K. Alis. 6007 (Laud MS.), Dryuers Gyoures, & Sumters [v.r. sumpteris]. c1420Sir Amadace (Camden) xxx, His sometour and his palfray mon bothe. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. xviii. 21 Incontinent were sent thither horses and sompters, to fetche thens some purueyance. 1601F. Tate Househ. Ord. Edw. II §87 (1876) 52 Al palfreours & somters of the kinges house.
2. A pack or baggage horse; a beast of burden.
1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) I. 302/1 Thus the Byshop..prouideth out of euery Citie in England ij. palfreys and ij. sumpters. 1577Holinshed Chron. II. 718/2 He gaue right great..giftes, lading his sumpters with plate and threasure. a1625Fletcher Noble Gent. v. i, You should have had a Sumpter..where now you are fain, To hire a Rippers mare. 1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. (1703) 147 He may, like a sumpter, carry things of value, but he never wears them. 1700Dryden Iliad i. 74 Then..he..Feather'd Fates among the Mules and Sumpters sent. 1849Alford Gk. Test. Matt. xxi. 6, 7 The Lord sat on the foal,..and the mother accompanied, apparently after the manner of a sumpter.
fig.1605Shakes. Lear ii. iv. 219 Returne with her? Perswade me rather to be slaue and sumpter To this detested groome.
3. A pack, saddle-bag. Now rare.
1570Levins Manip. 76 A Sumpter, sarcina. 1611Beaum. & Fl. Cupid's Rev. v. i, I'll have a horse to leap thee, and thy base issue shall carry Sumpters. 1652Sir C. Cotterell tr. Calprenède's Cassandra iii. (1676) 54 [He] commanded Cloaths of the Macedonian fashion to be taken out of his Sumpter. 1666Lond. Gaz. No. 106/4 His Mules with their Sumpters covered with Scarlet, Embroidered with Gold. 1681W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. (1693) 198. 1958 L. Durrell Balthazar ii. 32 A liquid-eyed camel..humped down the narrow street threatening to knock us down with its bulging sumpters of bercim.
4. attrib. (often equivalent to pack-; see pack n.1 15).
a. in sense 1, as sumpter boy, sumpter man.
1392–3Earl Derby's Exp. (Camden) 255 Pro expensis de somptermen. c1420Sir Amadace (Camden) xxviii, Thenne his sometour-mon before was dyȝte. 14..Lat.-Eng. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 586 Gerolotista, a sompturman. 1588Kyd Househ. Philos. Wks. (1901) 270 He must needs be chargde with sompter men. 1601F. Tate Househ. Ord. Edw. II §96 (1876) 56 That none of the kinges meignee..charetters or sompter boy..keepe his wife at the court. 1627J. Taylor (Water P.) Armado C 4 b, Sumptermen, Littermen and Coachmen. 1725MSS. Dk. Portland (Hist. MSS. Comm.) VI. 81 Samll. Jackson, the sumpter man.
b. in sense 2, as sumpter animal, sumpter ass, sumpter beast, sumpter camel, sumpter dog, sumpter horse, sumpter mule, sumpter pony; hence (= baggage-) sumpter canoe, sumpter car.
14..Lat.-Eng. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 582 Falerarius, a sompterhors. 1502Privy Purse Exp. Eliz. York (1830) 14 Six tapettes for the sompter horses. 1577Harrison Descr. Brit. iii. viii, The auncient vse of sommers and sumpter horses is in a maner vtterly relinquished. 1579–80North Plutarch (1676) 430 They overthrew their carriages and sumpter Moyls. 1602? Donne To Sir N. Smyth 133 That Scot..who, at his coming up, had not A Sumpter-dog. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 225 Two Mules that were Sumpter-Mules to a Colonel in Flanders. 1758Mrs. Delany Let. to Mrs. Dewes 1 Oct., A train of two chaises and two cars with us..and our sumpter-car. c1760Smollett Ode to Indep. 95 So moves the sumpter-mule, in harness'd pride. 1764Harmer Observ. xi. v. 222 A sumpter camel, which carries his treasure. 1821Southey Exped. Orsua 191 The sumpter beasts, who were partly laden with powder. 1832R. & J. Lander Exped. Niger III. xix. 159 Besides our convoy, we had a sumpter-canoe in company. 1863Baring-Gould Iceland 166 The horses tripped over swamps which would have engulphed the sumpter pony. 1873Tristram Moab iii. 45 The rest..kept a sharp look-out on the sumpter animals. 1879Walford Londoniana II. 33 From the knightly charger to the humble sumpter-horse.
c. = Covering or carried by a sumpter animal, as sumpter cloth, sumpter saddle, sumpter trunk.
1569Wills & Inv. Richmond (Surtees) 219, iiijor hackney sadles..One sumtar sadle. c1575J. Hooker Life Sir P. Carew (1857) 177, ij sompter clothes. c1653in Verney Mem. (1907) I. 535 Yalowe haire sumpter trunkes. 1666Lond. Gaz. No. 97/2 Thirty seven Mules with their Sumpter-Cloaths nobly embroidered with Gold. 1715Lady G. Baillie's Househ. Bk. (S.H.S.) 187 For 2 sumter trunks {pstlg}4 0 0. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) II. 52, I have seen an ass clothed in a very gorgeous sumpter-cloth. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. ix, Without the saddle being decored wi' the broidered sumpter-cloth. 1852Burn Naval & Milit. Dict. ii. (1863) 277/1 Sumpter-saddle, bât, selle de somme.
Hence † ˈsumpter v. trans., to put on one's back; to wear.
c1590Trag. Rich. II (1870) 7 For your sakes..For once Ile sumpter a gawdye wardropp. |