rearern.
/ˈrɪərə/, U.S. /ˈrɪrər/ 1. A person who rears someone or something (in various senses); (now) esp. an animal breeder. Formerly also with †up.
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society > education > upbringing > [noun] > one who brings up
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nurrya1387
nutrix?a1475
bringer up1529
nurturer1542
breedera1568
upbringerc1598
raiser-up1879
primary caretaker1914
motherer1974
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > [noun] > action, act, or state of waking or being wakened > specific waking or rousing > one who
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rouser1611
excitator1688
arouser1869
waker-upper1935
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > keeper of cattle
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breeder1531
cowman1593
rearer1611
bull-ward1614
cowgirl1753
ranchero1825
cattle-breeder1827
rancher1836
estanciero1845
ranchman1854
cattle king1874
beef-grower1880
cow-man1924
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Judith xiv. 9 Thei..weren..makende noise for ende to reren hym..that not of the rereres [v.r. arereris; a1425 L.V. reiseris; L. excitantibus] but of the noise makeris Olofernes shulde waken.
?a1425 (a1415) Lanterne of Liȝt (Harl.) (1917) 132 (MED) In þis chirche ben..enchauntours, arioleris, charmours, & rerars of þe deuel.
1596 H. Clapham Briefe of Bible i. 61 No common guiftes are required in the builders and rearers vp of Churches.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Esleveur, a rearer, breeder.
1683 J. Lead Revelation of Revelations 63 Who are they then who may expect to be rearers up of this Tabernacle, which the Majesty of the Glory will fill?
1767 W. L. Lewis tr. Statius Thebaid II. x. 323 The Rearer of the Steed, When the kind Spring renews his gen'rous Breed, With Joy views these.
1789 in F. O. Blundell Old Catholic Lancs. (1938) II. iii. 69 Exd in Ale on the Rearers of Chapel.
1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion vii. 322 Will he remain a..Planter, and a rearer from the Seed? View more context for this quotation
1880 Daily News 23 Oct. 2/1 The demand of the English rearer of store cattle for Irish lean cattle.
1918 Geogr. Rev. 6 63 The German excels as a rearer of animals, and this compensates to some degree for his inferiority as a cultivator of the soil.
1959 Times 18 May 10/4 There are plenty of range rearers who annually take their pullets off range into straw yards without trouble.
1996 S. R. Kandall Substance & Shadow 9 [Women's] unique role as childbearers, child rearers, and child medicators.
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1827 Sporting Mag. 21 131 We were favoured with..what is technically called ‘a rearer’, that is to say, the near side wheels went into a ditch deep enough to have turned us keel upwards.
3. A horse that has a tendency to rear (rear v.1 6a).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [noun] > rearing or plunging > horse that rears
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1829 Sporting Mag. 24 89 In nine cases out of ten I have found that confirmed rearers are tender mouthed.
1866 Athletic Sports for Boys 130 Little can be done in harness with a determined rearer.
1936 L. B. Smith Dude Ranches & Ponies 172 In the case of the rearer, it is more or less expected and the rider can see it coming.
1984 C. Kightly Country Voices ii. 71 They wouldn't entertain him, 'cause they knew he was a bit of a rearer.
2005 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 18 Dec. 88 By comparison with the rearers and plungers, those that lash out with their hind legs,..Aqua D'Amore [sc. a racehorse] doesn't rate.
4. English regional (Staffordshire). Coal Mining. A steeply inclined seam of coal; an edge seam. Usually attributive.Cf. quot. 1686 at rearing adj. 1.
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > stratum or bed > of coal > type of coal seam
foot coal1665
foot-rid1665
top coal1803
ten-yard coal1839
rider1840
ten-foot coal1855
top-hard1855
yard-coal1855
yard-seam1862
guide seam1867
main1867
bank1881
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1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 200 Rearer, see Edge Coals.
1897 Trans. Federated Inst. Mining Engineers 14 392 Seams having a higher gradient than 45 degrees are called ‘rearers’.
1913 Trans. Inst. Mining Engineers 45 378 Even these difficulties have been much intensified in the rearer workings of the Ten-Feet Seam.
1927 H. F. Bulman Working of Coal x. 129 The steep ‘rearer’ seams lying on the western side of the North Staffordshire coalfield are worked on a bord-and-pillar system.
1997 Dict. Mining, Mineral, & Related Terms (Amer. Geol. Inst.) (ed. 2) 61/1 Various names have been applied to this method [sc. bord-and-pillar method], such as..North Staffordshire method, rearer method of working inclined seams, [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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