makern.
/ˈmeɪkə/, U.S. /ˈmeɪkər/ 1. A person who fashions, constructs, prepares for use, or manufactures something; a manufacturer. Similarly, a company or other organization with this function.
a. With prefixed noun.For more established compounds see the first element.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > construction > one who constructs
maker1297
artificer1533
artifex1605
constructor1751
fabricant1756
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > [noun] > maker or manufacturer
maker1297
workera1382
preparatorc1485
opificer1548
preparer1553
manufactora1649
opifex1649
manufacturera1687
faker1688
fabricant1756
fabricator1863
prepper1970
1297 in W. P. W. Phillimore Placita Coram Rege (1898) 143 Johannem le Platemakere.
1347 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 222 (MED) Rob. Barremakere.
1374 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 222 (MED) Paul. Barremaker.
1455–6 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 98 (MED) For erneste peny to the ymage maker, j d.
1502 in H. Craig Two Coventry Corpus Christi Plays App. ii. 104 The wholl body of the craft of the tylmakers of Stoke.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 175 Carte makers..sadlers, coller makers.
1696 W. Derham (title) The Artificial Clock-maker.
1711 London Gaz. No. 4833/3 Tho. Morse,..a Mathematical Instrument-maker.
1774 in Titles Patents (1854) I. 193 A grant unto Hugh Oxenham,..carpenter and mangle maker, of his new invented mangle of an entirely new construction.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. ix. i. 372 A goldsmith's daughter! exclaimed I... Can you think of tying me up to a trinket-maker?
1902 Daily Chron. 17 Sept. 6/6 The necktie-makers and the artificial-flower-makers.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 850/1 It is uncertain whether he was a ship-chandler, a patten-maker, a plane-iron maker or an ironmonger.
1991 Jrnl. Refugee Stud. 4 262 Most mkate and mandazi-makers were wives in prosperous male-headed households.
1993 R. Hughes Culture of Complaint ii. 149 The Italians..were understandably tired of being viewed as a nation of organ-grinders and gelato-makers.
b. Without prefixed noun.
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 113v He makeþ singers, louyers of musik & makers of confexiouns of spicerie & spiceres.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 11036 Hijs lauerd he kneu welwel biforn Þat he was of his moder born [cf. Luke 1:41],..Þe maker kneu his hand-werc.
a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) i. 741 Man maketh ofte a yerde With which the makere is hymself ybeten.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 319 Macare, factor, plasmator.
c1480 (a1400) St. George 403 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 187 Þi godis..ar mad bot of handis of men..þar makaris noþir gifand na hele.
1511–12 Act 3 Hen. VIII c. 6 §3 The maker merchaunt or byer of eny wollen clothes called Bastardes.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 242/1 Maker of haye to cockes.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 242/1 Maker of naylles.
1550 H. Latimer Moste Faithfull Serm. before Kynges Maiestye sig. Gvv They be both wodmongers, and makers of cooles.
1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xlv. 16 Makers of idoles. View more context for this quotation
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 65 I valued an Irish Cabbin at the number of days food, which the Maker spent in building of it.
1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. §14. 259 The Makers [of these Instruments] have fitted an Ecliptic to it.
1771 C. Powys Passages from Diaries Mrs. Powys (1899) 147 At the bottom of the room is a table in which the maker has amazingly display'd his genius in disposing the different colours.
1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 314 The display of artistically constructed guns by the French makers in their Great Exposition of 1855.
1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 384 We procured some honey, which is taken from its makers in a very singular manner.
1892 W. W. Greener Breech-loader 52 The spurious gun may be either a gun represented as being of a quality it is not, or as a production of a maker other than the real one.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 726/2 The maker who wrote on the vessel from right to left the inscription, part of which [etc.].
1947 Gramophone Oct. 74/1 This..has the..replaceable sapphire stylus, for which the makers claim 1,000 playings before replacement is necessary.
1988 Which? Jan. 9/2 There is no guarantee that the name of a maker is a safe guide to the car's country of origin.
c. maker-up n. a person who makes up something or someone, formerly esp. in printing and in later use chiefly in textile and garment manufacture (see to make up 9f at make v.1 Phrasal verbs 1). Cf. maker-upper n.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > mender > [noun]
clouterc1440
maker-up?a1444
botcher1499
repairer?1504
reparationer1520
patcher1528
bodger1538
repareller1546
mender1552
sarcinator1646
vamper1712
piecer1764
renovator1827
repairman1856
fixer?1881
serviceman1905
Mr Fixit1924
fixit man1949
fixit1982
society > communication > printing > printer > readers, collators, etc. > [noun] > one concerned with make-up of paper
maker-up1891
?a1444 Duke of Norfolk in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 23 We haue appoyntid you to be one of the makeres vp indifferently of the euydences betwix vs and the seide heires.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. lviii. D Thou shalt be called the maker vp of hedges.
1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles xxix. 412 A maker up of the narrative from later and insecure traditions.
1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted 64 One or two men, called ‘makers-up’, are employed for each box to keep drawing the wool through their hands, making it into a kind of ‘lap’.
1891 Daily News 16 Jan. 8/4 Wanted, overseer, in country printing office... Good maker-up.
1892 Labour Commission Gloss. (at cited word) After the bodies and parts of Britannia metal goods have been shaped..the maker-up puts them together.
1955 Times 28 July 12/6 Taylor and Hartley (Textiles) have acquired the share capital of R. Olsen, makers-up, of Congleton.
d. Without up. A person who carries out a particular stage in the manufacture, esp. by hand, of various items (see quots.).
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > [noun] > maker or manufacturer > doing specific part of process
finisher1691
rougher1874
maker1892
1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. Makers, the workmen who receive the tops and then complete the making of hand-sewn boots and shoes. The term is also applied to those who make the bottom (with the exception of the finishing) of a rivetted or machine-made boot.
1961 M. Jones Potbank viii. 29 The potter—the man who changes a lump of clay into a cup or a plate—is known in the potbank as the maker.
1993 Independent 9 Feb. 25/5 The ‘closer’ cuts the leather to the final shape and the ‘maker’ completes the operation by attaching the sole and the heel.
2. † b.
a. Modified by a possessive adjective (also by the or an attributive phrase). Used of God as the Creator of the universe. Now with capital initial.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > creator
wrightc888
lightOE
sheppendOE
sheppera1175
wroughtc1275
creatorc1300
shaper1303
maker1340
workera1382
authora1413
workman1440
workmaster1531
artificer?1555
re-creator1587
architector1639
architect1659
enlivener1663
God almighty1787
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 251 Þe herte..y-ziȝþ hire zelue and hire makiere.
c1350 Ayenbite (1866) App. 262 (MED) Ich leue ine god, uader almiȝti, makere of heuene and of erþe.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 17875 Þis ilke liȝt forsoþe is he þat maker is of lastyng liȝt.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 319 Macare of noghte, as God only, creator.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 229 Flayt by him self to the makar off buffe.
?1507 Communyc. (W. de W.) B ij I was made to knowe my maker And to loue hym ouer all thynge.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xciv. [xcv.] 6 Let vs knele before the Lorde oure maker.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy Prol. 1 Maistur in mageste, maker of Alle.
1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 54 O what is man (great maker of mankind).
1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn ii, in Poems 3 Confounded, that her Makers eyes Should look so neer upon her foul deformities.
1718 I. Watts Hymn i Nature with open volume stands, To spread her Maker's praise abroad.
1751 Narr. Life J. Daniel xv. 206 It was but a creature..of the great Giver of life, and Maker of the world.
1827 J. Keble Christian Year I. xxi. 83 The glorious sky embracing all Is like the Maker's love.
1849 I. Williams Altar i. 4 That unearthly stillness, more intense, Where man must meet his Maker, and be known.
a1871 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Memorials (1883) II. 221 Pious to God the Maker and to all He had made.
1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage viii. 27 How can you face your Maker when you've been breaking one of His laws in the afternoon?
1950 D. Cusack Morning Sacrifice in 3 Austral. Three-Act Plays iii. ii. 249 I do not know—and you do not know—perhaps only Sheila and her Maker shall ever know—what drove her to this desperate deed.
1985 Toronto Sun 10 Oct. 66 Moseby grabbed his bat again, had a quiet chat with his Maker, and reassured himself that nothing had happened here that they both still couldn't handle together.
(a) to receive (also take) one's Maker: to receive the consecrated host in the Eucharist. Obsolete.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > receive communion [phrase]
houselOE
to receive, take the sacrament?c1225
to receive one's Savioura1425
to take (also deliver, receive) (the) communion1440
to receive (also take) one's Maker1539
1539 T. Pery Let. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. 145 That hys Grace..recewythe hys maker yerlye acording to the lawdebwll usse..of owr holly mother Chwrche.
1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Uiiijv It was aboute Easter, at what tyme maidens gadded abrode, after thei had taken their maker, as thei cal it.
1564 T. Becon Compar. Lordes Supper & Popish Masse f. cxiii, in Wks. iii To celebrate the Lordes Supper, or as the Papistes terme it, to take their Hushel, or to receaue their maker.
1634 Malory's Arthur (1816) II. 100 Then he received his Maker [1485 Caxton ed. x. lxii, his creatoure]: and, when he was dead [etc.].
(b) A wafer of bread for use in the Eucharist. Obsolete. rare.
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society > faith > artefacts > consumables > eucharistic elements > bread > [noun]
fleshc1000
ofleteOE
mannaa1200
breada1225
bread of lifea1300
host1303
bodya1325
obleya1325
God's bodya1387
cakec1390
singing bread1432
bread of wheata1450
singing loaf1530
God's bread1535
bread god?1548
round robin?1548
holy bread1552
singing cake1553
Jack-in-the-box1554
wafer-cake?1554
wafer1559
wafer-bread1565
breaden god1570
mass cake1579
wafer-god1623
hostel1624
maker1635
hostie1641
oblata1721
altar bread1839
prosphora1874
1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie 51 Henry Stephens writeth of a Dogge, that did eat 80 of their Hoasts, or Makers, in one morning.
c. to meet one's Maker: (in extended use) to die; (sometimes humorously, of a thing) to be destroyed.
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (intransitive)] > be destroyed, ruined, or come to an end
losec888
fallOE
forlesea1225
perishc1275
spilla1300
to go to wreche13..
to go to the gatec1330
to go to lostc1374
miscarryc1387
quenchc1390
to bring unto, to fall into, to go, put, or work to wrakea1400
mischieve?a1400
tinea1400
to go to the devilc1405
bursta1450
untwindc1460
to make shipwreck1526
to go to (the) pot1531
to go to wreck (and ruin)a1547
wrake1570
wracka1586
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
to lie in the dusta1591
mischief1598
to go (etc.) to rack (and ruin)1599
shipwreck1607
suffera1616
unravel1643
to fall off1684
tip (over) the perch1699
to do away with1769
to go to the dickens1833
collapse1838
to come (also go) a mucker1851
mucker1862
to go up1864
to go to squash1889
to go (to) stramash1910
to go for a burton1941
to meet one's Makera1978
1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise xv. 261 The wretched man had gone to meet his Maker in Farley's Footwear.
1967 in R. D. Abrahams Positively Black (1970) ii. 26 ‘Nigger boy,’ he said to me, ‘how'd you like to meet your maker right now?’
a1978 TV Times in A. P. Cowie et al. Oxf. Dict. Current Idiomatic Eng. (1983) II. 383/2 As these tired old notes meet their maker in Essex, a new load is on its way into our pockets.
1989 Premiere Dec. 42/4 His scriptwriter.., Nat Maudlin, almost met his maker thanks to a rafting expedition.
1997 Independent 20 May (Network Plus section) 3/3 Many a murderous, larcenous or otherwise socially irresponsible soul met his maker in this fashion.
3.
a. A person who composes a book, draws up a document, frames a law, or the like.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun]
bookerOE
writerOE
makerc1350
authora1382
inditera1387
pena1398
poetc1400
bookmakera1425
ditera1425
compilera1500
compositor?1533
book writer1565
penner1568
authorizera1579
bookwright1583
scribe1584
epistler1592
penman1592
scriptora1600
composer1603
book-breeder1605
comprisor?1623
volumist1641
scrivenera1660
literatist1660
knight of the quill1692
belletrist1816
scriever1825
creative writer1854
penworker1876
c1350 Ayenbite (1866) App. 269 Þe makyere zayþ, ‘Þus, þus, now ssel eurich hys heuynesse ssake a-way uram drede.’
a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 11v (MED) Here þis nede driueþ me to ouertourne auctors, þat is, techeris and makeris of bookys.
c1480 (a1400) St. Matthew 566 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 206 Makare of þe saltere.
1485 Act 1 Hen. VII c. 7 The Maker of any such Warrant.
1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 8 Which acte..is so obscure..that the true entent of the makers therof cannot..be undrestond.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xvii. 13 Þe haly gast..that is makere of haly writ.
1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes sig. D.iijv Whan they most supersticiously stycke to the letters of lawes not regardyng thintent of the makers.
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iii. ix. 149 Lawes for the Church are not made as they should be, vnles the makers follow such direction as they ought to be guided by.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xlii. 306 The Makers of Civill Laws, are not onely Declarers, but also Makers of the justice, and injustice of actions.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) V. 229 The makers of the act.
1874 A. Trollope Lady Anna I. ii. 20 There was a rambling statement that the maker of the will acknowledged Anna Murray to be his illegitimate daughter.
1932 L. C. Douglas Forgive us our Trespasses vii. 128 The papers submitted on Tuesday were, in the main, satisfactory. They would be returned, with notations, to their makers, at the close of the hour.
1949 Notes & Queries 8 Jan. 1/2 The makers of the following inventory were John Josselyn and John Cook.
b. With prefixed noun. Cf. sense 1a.
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c1475 Antichrist & Disciples in J. H. Todd Three Treat. J. Wycklyffe (1851) p. cxv David seiþ Lord sett þou a lawe maker upon hem.
1533 W. Tyndale Souper of Lorde B vj Where so euer is a testament, there muste the death of the testament maker go betwene.
1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. at Poet A verse maker.
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 109 Spiritual Affidavit makers.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 346 Our Map-makers..do not agree to it.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1777 II. 150 A mere verse-maker, in whose numbers..there is no poetry.
1833 H. A. in Philol. Museum 2 442 Men who were not fable-makers or compilers of marvellous stories.
1902 J. B. Greenough & G. L. Kittredge Words 181 A controlling effect on the action of the early language-makers.
1928 M. Connolly Mr. Blue v. 98 The successful conversationalist is not the epigram-maker, for sustained brilliance is blinding.
1962 H. A. Gleason in F. W. Householder & S. Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 88 A dictionary-maker need not include a non-idiomatic nonce-form.
1991 Tablet 21 Dec. 1577/2 Unlike theologians, carol-makers are not afraid of mystery; they celebrate it.
4.
a. In various immaterial senses: a person who brings about or produces a condition, effect, state of mind, etc.; a creator or producer (of); †a person who appoints to an office (obsolete); †a contriver (obsolete).
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > creator
forgerc1380
authora1382
feigner1382
formerc1386
founderc1390
makera1450
plasmatoura1500
constitutor1531
framer1534
creator1548
fashioner1548
opificer1548
essentiator1561
creatress1590
effecter1591
compactor1593
moulder1594
creatrix1595
mouldress1599
effector1635
composer1644
plastic1644
opifex1649
fabricator1650
formator1656
efformer1662
essentializer1669
constituenta1676
crafter1907
a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) 2682 (MED) And if we take any skathe..I dar wel swere That Malachias is chief maker.
1517 R. Fox Let. 30 Apr. (1929) 94 The Kyng that was my maker and promotor to the dignytie that I..doo occupye.
a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 21v You be in deed, makers or marrers, of all mens maners within the Realme.
a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 29v The greatest makers of loue, the daylie daliers.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 751 They..perceiuyng that the Castell of Barwicke was the onely maker of the peace.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 205 The maker of the bargaine.
a1625 H. Finch Law (1636) 409 All mainteyners, conspirators, makers of confederacie.
1714 A. Pope Corr. Oct. (1956) I. 265 Her Makers of Visits & Complements.
1858 H. W. Longfellow Courtship Miles Standish ii. 66 I am a maker of war, and not a maker of phrases.
1871 S. Smiles Character i. 22 Great workers and great thinkers are the true makers of history.
1906 J. London White Fang iii. i. 121 He knew them for what they were—makers of law and executors of law.
1954 I. Murdoch Under Net xi. 146 Homer K. Pringsheim is the power behind many a throne and the maker and breaker of many a film career.
1984 A. Livingstone Lou Andreas-Salomé vi. 93 All values are arbitrary and depend on us, their makers.
b. With prefixed noun. Cf. sense 1a.
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1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory 105 The Swanne pursueth the cockolde-maker.., & will not leaue the spouse breaker, tyll he kyll or bee killed.
1601 W. Cornwallis Disc. Seneca sig. E5v Death or destinie, or any of those period-makers.
1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth II. 341 Who dully think all Foreigners Man-makers, Send out their Booby Sons to France, to Dress.
1826 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 12 Drink is..the widow-maker of their wives.
1876 ‘Ouida’ In Winter City ii. 16 The calumny-makers.
1904 Daily Chron. 12 Nov. 5/6 Mr. James Welch to be Prominent Fun-maker at Drury Lane.
1924 D. H. Lawrence Mornings in Mexico (1927) 123 The intermittent black-and-white fantasy of the hopping Koshare, the jesters, the Delight-Makers.
1954 R. Lynes (title) Tastemakers.
1992 M. Blonsky Amer. Mythologies (1993) xix. 472 I had come to Kansas City to meet civilians, consumers of Goodson and Glaser..the taste-makers I have traveled halfway around the world to decode.
5. [Compare ancient Greek ποιητής poet n. (to which quot. a1586 refers).] A poet. Now archaic.In modern literary criticism, frequently in Scottish form makar (spec. with reference to a poet writing in Scots, esp. one of the 15th cent. or early 16th cent.).
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [noun]
versifierc1340
poeta1382
metrera1387
sayer?a1400
makerc1460
metrician?a1475
metrist?1545
singer1560
swannetc1560
songster1584
muse1596
Castalianist1607
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c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn 2462 (MED) I woll nat feyn oon woord, as makers doon to ryme.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 775 There ys no maker can reherse the tenthe part.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xii. l. 1453 Quhen gud makaris rang weill in-to Scotland.
?1507 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 95 I se that makaris, amang the laif, Playis heir ther padȝanis, syne gois to graif.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 233 Than cam in Dunbar the mackar.
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. ccclixv In wytte and in good reason of sentence he [sc. Chaucer] passeth al other makers.
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande vii. f. 26/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Owen Odewhee, a preacher, and a maker in Irishe.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. C1 Wherein I know not, whether by lucke or wisedome, wee Englishmen haue mette with the Greekes, in calling him a maker.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xxxi. 48 In the latter end of the same kings raigne sprong vp a new company of courtly makers, of whom Sir Thomas Wyat th'elder & Henry Earle of Surrey were the two chieftaines.
1782 J. Warton Ess. on Pope (new ed.) II. viii. 98 Here all is in life and motion; here we behold the true Poet or Maker.
1829 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. II. v. 366 The simple names of the authors, or ‘makars’, with a brief and unsatisfying notice of the subjects of their composition, are all that remain.
1871 P. H. Waddell Psalms frae Hebrew 3 An' hinmaist, the Hebrew Makars, gran' an' a' as they war, had a schule-man's gate o' their ain.
1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly I. iii. 66 ‘You found your pleasure in reading divine Poetry,’ said the Maker softly.
1878 A. B. Grosart in H. More Compl. Poems Introd. 46/1 To reinscribe the venerable name of Henry More among our real Makers and Singers.
1891 Dict. National Biogr. XXVI. 131/1 Henryson is the most Chaucerian of the Scottish ‘makaris’.
1908 Cambr. Hist. Eng. Lit. II. 239 With James I the outlook changes, and in the poems of Henryson, Dunbar, Douglas and some of the minor ‘makars’ the manner of the earlier northern poetry survives only in stray places.
1976 J. Bayley Uses of Division ii. ii. 164 His continual awareness of the difference between the poet as maker and as person.
2008 Stirling Observer 12 Nov. 5 The process of appointing Stirling's first makar is under way.
6. † a. Cards. A wild card. Cf. bragger n. 2. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > picture-card > jack > in specific games
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1753 Scots Mag. 15 74/2 You'd rather hold—two aces and a maker.
1754 ‘Gyles Smith’ Refl. Card-playing 14 (Brag) Here the Power of the Knave is so great, that he is usually called a Maker. The Meaning is, that, whatever Company he comes into, he is enabled to make himself one of them. He is a Queen, with Queens; a King, with Kings; and an Ace, with Aces.
b. Bridge. The player who makes the declaration.
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1902 J. B. Elwell Bridge 24 When the ‘maker’ is on your right, you have the advantage that your trumps are over his.
1915 H. H. Asquith Lett. to Venetia Stanley (1982) 360 We had rather amazing Bridge... The last named is a foolish & adventurous maker—a regular gambler: & my modest partner & I made (unfortunately at low stakes) many points.
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1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 398/1 Maker, the person who signs a promissory note, who stands in the same situation, after the note is endorsed, as the acceptor of a bill of exchange.
Compounds
maker's mark n. an identifying mark struck by the maker on a piece of gold, silver, or plate; also figurative.
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1852 A. Ryland Assay of Gold & Silver iv. 51 In this section three classes of marks are mentioned: first, the maker's mark,..second, ‘the marks of the said Company of Goldsmiths in London’..; and third, ‘the marks appointed to be used by the assayers’.
1878 W. E. Gladstone Homer xiii. 142 With Homer the maker's mark never obtrudes the maker, or places him between the reader and the theme.
1938 Amer. Home Oct. 28/3 Many of these lovely pieces bear the maker's mark.
1970 N. Pevsner Cambridgeshire (Buildings of Eng.) (ed. 2) 55 Maker's mark, IH, with fleur-de-lis between pellets below in a shaped shield.
1990 Antique Collector Oct. 34 (caption) A bombé gold snuff box with unusually crisp chasing; maker's mark of Joli & Chevenard, Geneva circa 1825.
Derivatives
ˈmakeress n. a female maker of something (in quot. 1857 as the compound brick-makeress).Apparently an isolated use.
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1857 Househ. Words 16 411/2 Brick-makers and brick-makeresses jolting up and down on planks.
ˈmakership n. rare the position or office of maker or creator.
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1863 F. Hall in Reader 24 Jan. 95 We should much like to know..whether the Magian sage [sc. Zoroaster] seems to have had any idea of Makership apart from a material cause.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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