单词 | multurer |
释义 | † multurern. Chiefly Scottish. Obsolete. A person (usually a miller, or a miller's servant or agent) to whom multure is payable. Also occasionally: a person who pays toll for having corn ground at a mill. ΚΠ 1328 in J. Stuart & G. Burnett Exchequer Rolls Scotl. (1878) I. 93 Per receptum Ade Multerer. 1360 in J. Stuart & G. Burnett Exchequer Rolls Scotl. (1878) II. 28 Compotum Johannis Multrer. 1546–7 Perth Guildry 8 Mar. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (1973) IV. 416/1 Allowit to Adam Ramsay ane of the mulcturaris viij s. vj d. 1580 in W. Cramond Rec. Elgin (1903) I. 156 James Cuming, multarar at the auld miln of Elgin. 1582 in J. Anderson Cal. Laing Charters (1899) 258 The multraris to haif ane pec and the fermoraris twa bollis ay quhill the aucht chaldyr be multrit. 1609 in R. S. Mylne Master Masons to Crown of Scotl. (1893) 95 To grund with the multeraris of Perth. 1666 Rec. Baillie Court Kelso f. 30 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Multurar They shall not..buy or ressett ony malt from ony person except ather maltmen or the multerer. 1702 in J. Paterson Hist. Regal. Musselburgh (1857) 39 That..the multurer shall draw the multures at the milnes in maner underwritten. a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) I. ii. ix. 314 The multure is a quantity of grain..due to the proprietor of the mill, or his tacksman, the multurer, for manufacturing the corns. 1793 D. Ure Hist. Rutherglen 117 The multurer, or miller's servant, has..what is equal to the half of the bannock-meal, for his fee. c1800 in J. R. N. Macphail Papers Sir William Fraser (1924) 58 Lady Mary was a great meal dealer. Her daughter..was her multurer. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 665 The competition there may be with other mills to which the outsucken multurers have access. 1896 D. Macara & D. Kippen Crieff II. 76 The moulterer of Dornoch was a canny, shrewd chield. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1328 |
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