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† ˈockerer, ˈokerer Obs.
[f. ocker n.1 or v. + -er1: chiefly of northern, and finally Sc. use.]
One who takes interest for the loan of money; a usurer. (Commonly referred to as a criminal or heinous sinner.)
a1300Cursor M. 14034 (Cott.) A man quilum was wont Penis for to lene vm-stunt, Þis man he was an okerer [Fairf. okrure]. a1340Hampole Ps. cviii. 10 [cix. 11] The okyrere ransake all his substaunce. c1440Gesta Rom. i. xxi. 71 (Harl.) He [the rook] betokenyth okerers and false merchauntz. c1460Towneley Myst. xxx. 297 Of barganars and okerars and lufars of symonee. 1552Lyndesay Monarche 5728 Fornicatoris, and Ockararis. 1591Jas. I. Furies, Poet. Exerc. 1440 The treasures gathered by the paines..sore, Of their forebeers occurrars. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 40 All the gudes and geir perteining to ane ockerer, quhither he deceis testat or vntestat, perteins to the King. 1699in E. W. Dunbar Soc. Life Moray (1865) 31 Under the certificating of being pursued as Occurrers or Userers. |