α. Middle English vewter.
β. late Middle English feutrer, late Middle English fewtrees (plural), late Middle English foutrer, late Middle English– fewterer, 1600s futerer, 1600s pheuterer, 1600s phewterer, 1600s–1800s feuterer.
单词 | fewterer |
释义 | fewterern.α. Middle English vewter. β. late Middle English feutrer, late Middle English fewtrees (plural), late Middle English foutrer, late Middle English– fewterer, 1600s futerer, 1600s pheuterer, 1600s phewterer, 1600s–1800s feuterer. Now historical and rare. A person who looks after and manages hunting dogs. Also more widely: an attendant. Sometimes with prefixed defining word, as fox-fewterer, yeoman-fewterer. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] > attendant on hounds fewtererc1400 bernera1425 hound's-swainc1475 brackener1490 piqueur1580 dog boy1612 vauterer1679 whipper-in1739 whipper1826 whip1848 velterer1911 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping dogs or cats > [noun] > keeping or affinity with dogs > keeper of hounds fewtererc1400 bernera1425 hound's-swainc1475 brackener1490 vauterer1679 velterer1911 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > greyhound > keeper of fewtererc1400 society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] thanea700 yeoman1345 squirec1380 foot followera1382 handservanta1382 servitora1382 ministera1384 servera1425 squire of (or for) the body (or household)1450 attender1461 waitera1483 awaiter1495 tender?a1505 waiting-man1518 satellite?1520 attendant1555 sitter-byc1555 pediseque1606 asseclist?1607 tendant1614 assecle1616 fewterera1625 escudero1631 peon1638 wait1652 under spur-leather1685 body servant1689 slavey1819 tindal1859 maid-attendant1896 c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1146 To trystors vewters ȝod. c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 107 (MED) Þan he shuld warne þe hunters and feutreres whider þei shuld comen. a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 631 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 320 Þo vewter, two cast of brede he tase, Two lesshe of grehoundes yf þat he hase. 1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (iii.) f. 36v These pharisaicall foxe fewterers. 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor ii. i. sig. Fv And perhaps stumble vpon a yeoman Pheuterer, as I doe now. View more context for this quotation a1625 J. Fletcher Womans Prize ii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Nnnnn4v/2 A dry nurse to his Coughes, a fewterer To such a nasty fellow. 1691 Blount's Νομο-λεξικον (ed. 2) at Vautrier Hence our corrupted word Feuterer, for a Dog-keeper. 1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. i. 234 He that is chosen Fewterer, or that lets loose the Greyhounds. 1801 Sporting Mag. 18 100 Feuterer, a dog-keeper. 1933 Speculum 8 37 The fewterers or greyhound-holders, each with three, less often two, greyhounds on leash, proceeded to their appointed stations. 2011 A. E. Smith Queen by Right i. 7 A falconer and two grooms accompanied them along with several eager hunting dogs, held firmly in control by fewterers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1400 |
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