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▪ I. stammerer1|ˈstæmərə(r)|
[f. stammer v. + -er1.]
One who stammers.
αa1513Fabyan's Chron. vi. clxxiii. (1811) 170 Lodowycus Balbus, whiche is to meane Lewys y⊇ Stamerer. 1547Boorde Brev. Health xli. 21 If it [i.e. stuttering] do come with beyng in the company of a stutter or stamerer, a man must refrayne the company of a stutter. 1611Bible Isa. xxxii. 4. a 1637 B. Jonson Discoveries, De vita humana (1640) 105 Like Children, that imitate the vices of Stammerers so long, till at last they become such. 1738Gentl. Mag. VIII. 35/1 A Stammerer is generally of a Fiery Temper. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 212 Cardiac defects are frequent in stammerers.
β1552Huloet, Stambrer, titubator. Stambrer in readynge, offensator.
b. fig.
1580G. Harvey Three Proper Lett. iii. 45 A fewe suche stammerers as haue not the masterie of their owne Tongues. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 150 What mighty lines hath Isaiah?..read, and confesse Demosthenes and Cicero, but Stammerers at Eloquence. 1780Mirror No. 97 She..is a very stammerer in infidelity. 1868Geo. Eliot Sp. Gipsy i. 135 Poor eager hope is but a stammerer.
▪ II. † ˈstammerer2 Sc. Obs.
[Of obscure origin; cf. northern Sc. stammerel ‘friable stone’ (Jam.).]
pl. Detached pieces of limestone.
1793Ure Rutherglen 259 Besides the regular strata, a great number of detached pieces, called Stammerers, are, in many places of the parish, found imbedded in clay. 1800J. Headrick in Commun. Board Agric. II. 256 There are, how⁓ever, water-worn limestones scattered here and there through land, called stammerers. |