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grazier|ˈgreɪʒ(ɪ)ə(r)|
Forms: 6–8 grasier, (6 -ior, -yar, grazyer, 6–7 grasyer), 7– grazier.
[f. gras grass n.: see -ier. Quots. 1580 and 1611 seem to indicate that the word became more or less identified with the 16–17th c. F. graissier (f. graisse fat, grease n.). Cf. graze v.3]
†1. Used to render med.L. viridarius verderer.
1502Charter of Forests in Arnolde Chron. (1811) 210 To theis twoo swanmotis shall com togedur our foresturs grasyers & woodwalkers.
2. One who grazes or feeds cattle for the market.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §40 Thou grasier, that hast many shepe in thy pastures. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 52 They that are grasiers, vse the hole herbe in the stede of grasse and hay. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Vn Graissier, a grasier. 1606Dekker Sev. Sinnes ii. (Arb.) 20 Marching not like a plodding Grasyer with his Droues before him, but like a Citty-Captayne. 1611Cotgr., Graissier,..a Grasier, or fattener of cattell. a1639W. Whately Prototypes ii. xxvi. (1640) 71 He brought them up..to be Grasiers, as we call them, to breed Cattell, Sheep, Oxen, Camels, Goats, and the like. 1678R. L'Estrange Seneca's Mor. (1702) 47 A Grasier fats his Cattel to bring them to a better Market. 1710Swift Baucis & Phil. 118 Presently he feels His Grazier's Coat fall down his Heels. 1787W. Marshall Norfolk (1795) II. 380 Graziers, fatters of cattle; whether their food be grass, turneps, or oilcake. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xxxv, Broad-brimmed white hat, such as a wealthy grazier might wear. 1853J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. (1873) II. i. i. 3 The savage..chooses to be a grazier rather than to till the ground.
b. Proverbial and allusive uses.
a1520Vox Populi 65 in Skelton's Wks. (1843) II. 401 Grasyers and regraters, Withe to many shepemasters, That of erable grounde make pasture, Are thei that be these wasters. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. E ij, Insaciable cormorants, greedie grasiers..who hauing raked togither infinite pasture, feed all themselves, and will not sell for anie reasonable gaine. 1872E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 134 ‘To life like a grazier’ or to turn arable land into pasture continued to be a reproach cast upon some of the great English land owners at so late a period as the 16th century.
Hence (nonce-wds.) ˈgrazierly a., pertaining to or like that of a grazier; ˈgrazierdom, the realm or world of graziers.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe Ep. Ded. A iij, Thou..spendest more..then in a whole yeare thou gettest by some grasierly gentilitie thou followest. 1822Bp. Heber in Jer. Taylor's Wks. (1839) I. p. cxi, In a respectable grazierly style, on horseback, and in a white coat. 1828Carlyle Misc. (1857) I. 230 Do battle against the intrusions of Grocerdom and Grazierdom. |