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weigher|ˈweɪə(r)|
Forms: 4 wier, weir, 4–5 weiere, weyere, 5 weyor, -ar, 5–6 weyer, 6 waier, weygher, 6–7 wayer, 6– weigher.
[f. weigh v.1 + -er1. Cf. MLG., MHG. weger.]
†1. ? One who bears up or supports (a person).
a1300Cursor M. 22115 Þe wicked gastes his wiers [Gött. weirs] Him foluand in al his afers.
2. One who heaves up or weighs (an anchor).
1598Florio, Salpatore, a wayer or heauer of ankers. a1818M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. Ind. (1834) 5 The weigher of the anchor.
3. a. A person who is employed to weigh commodities; an official appointed to weigh or to supervise weighing, to test weights, etc. Also weigher-in.
14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 618/3 Trutinator, a weyere. 1463Cases bef. King's Council (Selden Soc.) 111 Brouwurs weyers porters tresourers clerkys [etc.] of the Staple. 1476Stonor Papers (Camden) II. 5 And whan I haue weyyde heme to..pay..to the weyor ffor euery sake j d. a1513Fabyan Chron. vii. (1811) 342 Where before tyme y⊇ weyer vsyd to lene his draught towarde the marchaundyse, soo that the byar hadde by that meane .x. or .xii. li. in a draughte to his aduauntage. 1535Act 27 Hen. VIII, c. 14 (§1) The waier of the Wolles within the said Porte. 1677W. B. Touch-stone Gold & Silver Wares 20 Their Assay-Office,..wherein is a Sworn Weigher. 1701Luttrell Brief Rel. V. 79 Mr. Fitch, cheif weigher of the gold and silver at the Mint. 1794Griggs Agric. Essex 26 Two men are nominated..whom we call public weighers, whose business it is to..examine the weights of all millers and shopkeepers. 1812J. Smyth Pract. Customs (1821) 11 At landing the Goods, the Weigher is to call out the full and true gross weight in the scale. 1855H. G. Dalton Hist. Brit. Guiana II. 568 Licensed Weighers or Gaugers. 1880‘Mark Twain’ Tramp Abroad ii. 9 The crowd mash one another to pulp in the effort to get the weighers' attention to their trunks. 1886Act 49 & 50 Vict. c. 49 §16 The Admiralty may appoint..persons to be meters and weighers at and within the harbour. 1906A. H. Lewis Confessions of Detective i. i. 7 I've been weigher-in at the boxing tournaments for over ten years. 1928Daily Tel. 25 Sept. 12/5 It is a rule that every fish caught must be kept alive, and after being weighed must be put back into the water by the official weigher-in. 1982J. A. Sharwood in Occasional Papers Univ. Sydney Austral. Lang. Res. Centre No. 20. 20 He may be inclined to complain to the boundary rider..about the bloke with the short arm being employed as the weigher-in there.
b. in fig. sense or context.
1388Wyclif Prov. xvi. 2 The Lord is a weiere [1382 peisere] of spiritis. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. xx. (Roxb.) 146 The time and the sunne j made myn owen and in my balaunce j putte hem. Bi myn outrage j haue maad my self weyere ther of and sellere. 1566W. P. tr. Curio's Pasquin in Trance 64 b, marg., Seint Michaell wayer of soules. 1759[E. Young] Conj. Orig. Comp. 72 Old Time, that best weigher of merits. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 171 Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and pains. 1903Critic (U.S.) XLIII. 360/1 Now that you are becoming a professional weigher of books yourself.
c. A machine for weighing.
1905Westm. Gaz. 21 Aug. 4/1 The coal is then placed into a weigher, which dips at each quarter of a ton.
†4. Used to translate L. æquator (equator 1). Cf. weigh v.1 11 c. Obs.
c1391Chaucer Astrol. i. §17 This same cercle [the equinoctial] is cleped also the weyere, equator, of the day.
Hence ˈweighership, the office of (public) weigher.
1885American XI. 68 After all, Mr. Sterling seems likely to miss the Brooklyn weighership. |