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booker|ˈbʊkə(r)|
Forms: 1–2 bócere, 2 bokere, 3 bocare, 9 booker.
[OE. bócere, corresp. to OHG. buohhâri, Goth. bôkareis, :—OTeut. *bôkârjo-z, f. bok- book; but in the modern senses formed anew on book v.]
†1. A writer of books, a scribe. Obs.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. viii. 19 Ða ᵹenealæhte him an bocere, and cwæð. c1175Cott. Hom. 245 Þa sunder halȝan and þa boceras. c1205Lay. 32125 Alle þa bocares wise.
2. One who enters in a book; a book-keeper;
b. spec. (see quot. 1863.)
1863All Y. Round 11 July 472/2 Persons technically known as ‘bookers’, who were, in fact, spies, travelling in the omnibus, and yielding to the company as account of every passenger. 1881Whitehead Hops 62 The number of bushels..is entered in a book by a booker. 1883J. Y. Stratton Hops & Hop-p. 31 All being carefully entered in the account kept by the booker.
3. techn.
1864H. Bruce in Parlt. 14 June, With regard to the finishers and bookers..representation had been made to the Government. |