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▪ I. carter1|ˈkɑːtə(r)|
Also 3–6 cartare, 4 karter, 5 cartere, 6–8 cartar.
[f. cart n. + -er1. (Littré and Cotgr. have F. chartier in this sense in 16–17th c.)]
†1. The driver of a chariot; a charioteer. Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 21287 Þe carter self is iesus crist. c1374Chaucer Boeth. v. iv. 163 As men seen þe karter worken in þe tournynge..of hys kartes or chariottes. 1513Douglas æneis xii. viii. 60 Metiscus the cartar, That Turnus chayr had for to rewle on hand. 1551Recorde Cast. Knowl. (1556) 264 This constellation is also named Auriga the Cartar. 1580Baret Alv. C 150 A chariot man, a carter.
2. a. One who drives a cart.
a1250Owl & Night. 1184 Drah to the cwaþ þe cartare. 1463Mann. & Househ. Exp. 226 The carteris that browt hame the sayd yryn. 1549Olde Erasm. Par. Ephes. Prol. C ij, As vnmete for this..as a carter of husbandry to be a caruer at a noble mans table. 1697W. Dampier Voy. (1729) I. 432 A piece of Buffaloe-hide, shaped like our Carters Frocks. 1840Hood Up Rhine 194 The carters drive along the streets smacking a tune with their whips.
b. As a type of low birth or breeding; a rude, uncultured man, a clown. (Common in 16th c.)
1509Barclay Ship of Fooles Pref., Why are they [poets] dyspysed of many rude carters of nowe a dayes whiche vnderstonde nat them? 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 3 b, There is no Carter but knoweth it. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xx. (Arb.) 57 Continence in a king is of greater merit, then in a carter. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. (1849) I. 322 A man with the deportment, the vocabulary, and the accent of a carter.
†3. ? Some kind of missile. Obs.
1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) I. ii. 8 Heaving..round and doubleheaded partridges, crows, and carters.
4. a. More fully carter-fish: a kind of flat-fish (Pleuronectes megastoma), otherwise called whiff.
1884St. James's Gaz. 18 Jan. 6/1 The carter, etc...belong to that strange family of fish.
b. In full carter spider: an arachnid of the order Opiliones; = harvestman 2.
1665Hooke Microgr. 198 The Carter, Shepherd Spider, or long-legg'd Spider. 1736Hooke in E. Albin Nat. Hist. of Spiders 57 Microscopical observations on the Carter Spider and Jumping Spider. 1746B. Martin Ess. Electricity 22 That Sort [of spider] we call a Carter, or Father Long-legs.
▪ II. † ˈcarter2 Sc. Obs.
Also cairtar.
[f. carte1 4 + -er1.]
A card-player.
1566Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 345 Tables, whairof sum..used to serue for drunkardis, dysaris, and carteris.
▪ III. carter
obs. form of charter. |