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▪ I. † ˈoutˌputter1 Obs.
[out- 8.]
One who puts out.
1. One who puts or pushes out.
Outpulter and outeputter are here applied to the same person. Either of these may be a misprint for the other, or the words may be used as synonyms: cf. pelt, pult, put vbs. The passage (which, as printed, is incoherent and corrupt) purports to be from a prophecy of Merlin, in which outpulter may have been the orig. word. The precise sense is not determinable.
1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxi. n iij, The bere sholde flee with a swan..thurgh an vnkynde outpulter and that the swan than sholde be slayne with sorwe at Burbrugge. Ibid. n iij b, Sir Andrewe of Herkela that is called the vnkynde outeputter.
b. A publisher.
1583Reg. Privy Council Scot. Ser. i. III. 587 Sellaris and outputtaris of thair saidis buikis.
2. One who utters or circulates false coin. Sc.
1574Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) 93/1 The personis.. salbe persewit and ponissit as wilfull outputtaris and changearis of fals and corrupt money.
3. One who was bound or engaged to provide and fit out men for military service.
1640in Spalding Troub. Chas. I (1850) I. 359 If it sall cum to the knouledge of any persone who hath or sall happin to out reache soldiouris, horss or foot,..that these out reachit by them are disbandit and fled fra there culloris, the said out putteris of thame salbe oblegit to serche, seik, and aprehend the saidis fugitiues. Ibid., Vtherwaies..the saidis out putteris salbe oblegit to mak wp there number be out putting of men in there places, sufficientlie providit in armes and vther necessareis vpone the saidis out reacheris there owne expenssis. 1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 251 A country gentleman, out-putter of foot or horse.
4. An instigator.
1639Gordon Hist. Earls Sutherland (1813) 317 Sir Robert Gordon..wes blamed by the Earle of Catteynes for this accidentall slaughter, as ane outputter of the rest to that effect.
5. A term applied to certain maintainers and abettors of thieves or freebooters.
In 9 Hen. V. it appears from the context to be applied to persons in Redesdale who maintained and fitted out thieves for depredations in the adjacent counties: cf. senses 3 and 4. Bp. Jackson seems to have understood and used it of persons who put out their neighbours' cattle or goods into places handy for thieves with whom they were in league: cf. output v. 1 b, quot. 1615. But the out-putters of 1421 were not the neighbours of the persons robbed, but felons living beside the thieves in Tynedale and Redesdale.
1421Supplic. Commons Northumbld., Cumbld., & Westmld. in Rolls of Parlt. 9 Hen. V. 143/1 Graund partie des ditz suppliantz sont destruitz par plusurs larons & felons appellez In-takers & Out-putters, demurantz deins les Franchises de Tyndale, Rydesdale, & Hexhamshire... Qar le greindre nombre qi inhabitent deins les ditz Franchises, ou sont tiels malfesours, ou mainteinours d'eulx en lour mauveiste. ― Act 9 Hen. V, c. 7 Diverses persones larons et felons appellez Intakers & Outputters demourantz deinz la franchise de Ridesdale, en quele franchise le brief du Roy ne court mye. [i.e. divers persons, thieves, and felons called Intakers and Outputters, dwelling within the Liberty of Redesdale, in which Liberty the King's writ does not run.] a1640Jackson Creed xi. xl. §8 He is a more cunning thief which can steal without an outputter or receiver, than he which always is enforced to use the help of one or other. 1664Spelman Gloss. s.v. Intakers, Quos Outparters vocant..recentius Outputters nuncupati.
Note. Rastell's Eng. transl. of the Statutes (ed. 1543) reads in the Act of 1421 ‘felons called yntakers and outparters’, an obvious misprint, which was however repeated in all editions previous to that of Ruffhead in 1763 (which retains ‘outparters’ in the text with ‘outputters’ in the margin). Hence ‘outparter’ was accepted as a genuine word by Cowell, who in his Interpreter further identified the ‘outparter’ with the thief, with which erroneous explanation the bogus word has duly reappeared in the Law Dictionaries down to Wharton, as well in Phillips, Kersey, Bailey, Ash, Crabbe, Ogilvie's Imperial Dict., Century Dict., and Funk's Standard Dict.: it was eschewed by Johnson and Webster. As if one error were not enough, Wharton has also Outputer, with an explanation founded upon the latter part of Cowell's article, but making ‘man or house’ into ‘manor-house’ (!). This last blunder is taken over from Wharton by Cassell's Encycl. Dict., Ogilvie, and Century Dict. (all professing to take it from Cowell). In Hodgson, Hist. Northumbld. pt. ii. I. 60, the ‘outparters’ of 1543 appear in a new guise as ‘outpartners’, erroneously said to be used in the Supplication of 1421, which has Out-putters.
1607Cowell Interpr., Outeparters, anno 9. H. 5. ca. 8, seemeth to be a kind of theeues in Ridesdall, that ride abroad at their best advantage, to fetch in such catell or other things, as they could light on without that liberty: some are of opinion that those which in the forenamed statute are termed out-parters, are at this day called out⁓putters, and are such as set matches for the robbing of any man or house: as by discovering which way he rideth or goeth, or where the house is weakest and fittest to be entred. See Intakers. 1658Phillips, Outparters, a sort of theeves about Ridesdale, that ride about to fetch in such cattel or other things as they can light on; [ed. 1706 adds, and make Matches for the robbing of Men and Houses]. 1823Crabb Technol. Dict., Out-parters (Law), a sort of freebooters in Scotland, who used to ride out and seize whatever they could which came in their way. 1848Wharton Law Lex., Outparters, stealers of cattle. Ibid., Outputers, such as set watches for the robbing any manor-house. 1882–90Ogilvie's Imperial, & Century Dict., Out-parter. In old law, a cattle-stealer. Out-putter. In old law, One who set watches for the robbing of any manor-house. Cowell.
▪ II. ˈoutputter2
[f. output n. or v. 4.]
One who turns out some industrial product; a producer.
1902Spectator 22 Nov. 784/1 The increased proportion of wages to output is being met by a reduction in the necessary number of outputters. |