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marbler|ˈmɑːblə(r)|
Also 5 marbyler, merbler, 6 marbular, merbeler, 5–6, 8 marbeler.
[f. marble n. and v. + -er1. Cf. F. marbrier (= senses 1, 2), marbreur (sense 3).]
1. A quarryman or hewer of marble. ? Obs.
1457in Dugdale Warwicksh. (1656) 355 Iohn Bourde of Corff Castle, in the County of Dorset, Marbler. 1478Church-w. Acc. St. Andrew's East Cheap in Brit. Mag. XXXII. 37 Item to a Marbeler for hauyng oute of a Marbyll Ston iiijd. 1538Leland Itin. i. 94 (1768) I. 88 Marble, wont to be taken up..by Marbelers of Barnardes Castelle and of Egleston. 1885Harper's Mag. Jan. 243/1 The quarriers, or ‘marblers’, as they are called in the old papers relating to the body [at Purbeck].
†2. One who carves, or works in, marble; a sculptor. Obs.
1469–70Fabric Rolls York Minster (Surtees) 73 Robert Spillesby..equitanti pro les merblers..37s. 4d. a1470Tiptoft Orat. G. Flammeus (Caxton 1481) He [Socrates] had to his moder a mydwyf and to his fader a marbyler. 1538Leland Itin. VII. 25 Many Marbelers working in Alabaster. 1649Fuller Just Man's Funeral 23 Let..the most accurate Marbler erect the Monument. 1720Strype Stow's Surv. Lond. (1754) II. v. xiv. 312/1 The Company called by the name of Marblers for their excellent knowledge..in the art of insculpting Personages for tombs. 1868Stanley Westm. Abb. iii. 153 [Preparation for Henry VI's tomb, an. 1472] The ‘marbler’ (or, as we should now say, the statuary).
3. One who marbles paper, etc. Also, an instrument used for marbling paper.
1835J. Hannett Bibliopegia 206. 1885 Crane Bookbind. for Amateurs 97 Of all the varieties of gum, there is but one that is of any use to the marbler..gum tragacanth. 1890J. W. Zaehnsdorf Bookbinding 75 Leo's Mechanical Marblers. |