dightern.
/ˈdʌɪtə/ Obsolete exc. dialect.
One who dights, in various senses of the verb:
a. A composer, author, director, ruler, preparer; a winnower.
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society > communication > writing > writer > [noun]
writereOE
dightera1000
pena1398
penner1568
calligrapher1752
penciller1836
reducer1868
society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > ordinance, prescription, or appointment > one who
dighter1340
setter1538
prescriber1548
ordainer1631
appointer1633
prescriver1639
decreer1660
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > winnowing > winnower
winnowsterc1325
winnowera1382
fanner?1518
vanner1552
winder?1570
dighter?1611
a1000 Prose Life Guthlac (1848) Prol. 4 Ic write swa me ða dihteras sædon ðe his lif..cuðon.
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 140/21 Commentator, expositor, dihtere.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 100 Efterward zeþþe þet he ys uader, he is diȝtere and gouernour and porueyour to his mayné.
?1562 Thersytes sig. D.iv David dowghtye dyghter of datys.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Prestatore, a prouider, a dighter, a vsurer.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads v. 499 The chaff..Which all the diters' feet, legs, arms, their heads and shoulders whites.
1805 A. Scott Dighting of Barley in Poems 69 (Jam.) The floating atoms did appear, To dab the dighters over.
1892 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Dighter, a winnower of corn.
b. A winnowing machine.
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1892 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Dighter, a winnowing machine.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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