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poulterer|ˈpəʊltərə(r)|
Also 6 pulterer, 7 polterer, poultrer.
[Extended form of poulter, perh. formed on poultery, poultry: see -er1 3.]
a. One whose business is the sale of poultry (and usually hares and other game); a dealer in poultry.
(Quot. 1534 doubtful, pulter man occurs on same page.)
[1534in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 126 The pulterers nor other freemen of the Towne.] 1638Penkethman Artach. A j b, Let Butchers, Poultrers, Fishmongers contend, Each his owne Trade in what he can defend. 1684Lond. Gaz. No. 1955/4 Apprentice to Mr. Bayly, his Royal Highness's Polterer..in the Pall-Mall. 1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France II. 27 Poulterers hang up their animals in the feathers. 1853–8Hawthorne Eng. Note-Bks. (1879) II. 365 An abundance of game at the poulterers.
b. Applied to the livery company of Poulters. poulterer's measure, = poulter's measure s.v. poulter 1 b. Chiefly Hist.
1755Strype Stow's Surv. II. v. xiii. 303/2 The Company of Poulterers [ed. 1633, p. 632 Poulters] were incorporated in the 19th Year of Henry the Seventh. 1841R. G. Latham Eng. Lang. v. 382 Poulterer's Measure,—Alexandrines and Service Measures alternately. Found in the poetry of Henry the Eighth's time. 1957N. Frye Anat. Crit. 263 There were some comparative failures, such as poulterer's measure. |