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regrater|rɪˈgreɪtə(r)|
Also 5 Sc. -tar.
[a. AF. regrater m., regratere f., = OF. regratier (1180; mod.F. regrattier), f. regrater to regrate v.2: cf. It. regattiere, Sp. regatero in the same sense. See also regrator.]
1. One who regrates victuals or other commodities; a buyer-up for sale; a retailer. Now chiefly Hist. or with reference to France.[1301Rolls of Parlt. I. 254/1 Agnes la Regratere..in pane venal. xvd. 1353Act 27 Edw. III, c. 3 Les hostelers des herbergeries & autres Regraters de vitailles.] 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. iii. 90 Of alle suche sellers syluer to take,..Ringes or other ricchesse þe regrateres to maynetene. Ibid. v. 226 Rose the regratere was hir riȝte name. c1450Merlin 168, I ne knowe nought of the kynge that loueth tresoure, and is regrater and a wyssher. a1500Iter Camer. c. 19 in Acts Parl. Scot. (1844) I. 699 Of Regrataris..þai by gudis befor þe lauchfull hour. 1537Cromwell in Merriman Life & Lett. (1902) II. 75 The oversight..of forstalers and regraters..within the town of Cambridge. 1592Sc. Acts Parl. (1597) c. 148 Forasmeikle as sindry acts of Parliament hes bene maid for punishment of fore-stallers and regraters [etc.]. 1613Welwod Abridgem. Sea-Lawes 12 Against the forestallers, regraters, and dearthers of corne, fish, drinke, fire-wood, victuals caried ouer sea. 1642Rogers Naaman 257 The poore shall curse thee, Oh thou regrater, Thou engrosser of corne, and raiser of prises. 1709–10Steele Tatler No. 118 ⁋10 The Scarcity caused by Regraters of Bread-Corn. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. i. i, To them the great Sovereign is known mainly as the great regrater of bread. 1870Daily News 3 Sept. 6 A police decree..preventing regraters from availing themselves of the extraordinary measures taken to provide food for the city [Paris] to make famine prices for their own profit.
fig.1824Landor Imag. Conv., Jas. I & Casaubon, He is..no forestaller and regrater of manna from heaven, or of palms from paradise.
2. One who collects commodities from the producers and brings to market; a middleman. (In current use (c 1905) in south-western counties.)
1844Ld. Brougham A. Lunel II. iii. 57 A middleman between the publisher and the author, like a regrater between the hop-grower and the hop-merchant or the brewer. 1865Reader 26 Aug. 236/2 ‘Regraters’ (as the Devon folk call them..) travel round the villages, and buy up fowls, and cream, and other delicacies.
fig.1874T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd xxv, A sort of regrater of other men's experiences of the glorious class. |