storern.
/ˈstɔːrə/, U.S. /ˈstɔrər/ 1. † c. ? A partner or shareholder in a joint-stock undertaking. Obsolete.
a. One who, or a thing which, stores or keeps in store.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > storer
storer1513
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. ix. 23 Tirrheus thair fader was fee maister, and gyde Of studis, flokis, bowis; and heyrdis wyde, As storoure to the king, did kep and ȝime.
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid xii. Prol. 263 Welcum stourour of alkynd bestiall.
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus ii. i. sig. Iiij The storer of some well moneyed mayster .i. the keper or ouerseer of the prouision for householde.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lxix. 10) Ye trew rule of Godlynesse..whereof ye church is ye faithful storer.
1640 T. Brugis Marrow of Physicke i. 55 Memory is the sure storer of all things, as in a magazine.
1864 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene 89 Sulphurous Acid Gas.—The bleachers in cotton and worsted manufactories, and storers of woollen articles, are most exposed to this gas.
b. One who hoards, lays by, or makes provision, for (a need).
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > storer > for some specific need
storer1599
1599 J. Hayward 1st Pt. Henrie IIII 59 The King in peace no stoarer for war.
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 26 My Mother was a storer, a thrifty Wench.
1907 Athenæum 14 Sept. 307/1 The coal-tit is undoubtedly a storer for the future.
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1623 in Trans. New Shakspere Soc. (1885) 499 The said Thomas Greene..was a fellow Actor or player of and in the Companie..of the late queenes Matie Queene Anne,..and a full adventurer, storer and sharer of in and amongst them.
d. One who stocks or peoples.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [noun]
peopler1566
planter1587
plantator1632
colonist1658
populator1664
storer1690
settler1696
white settler1754
plantationite1756
colonizer1766
colonizationist1823
colon1860
homesteader1870
plantationer1888
1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 125 To him who was the first storer of the world [sc. Adam].
2. Something kept to produce a store or stock.† b. A number of animals kept for breeding. Obsolete.
a. = standel n.2 ? Obsolete.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > cultivated or valued > [noun] > timber-tree
timber-treec1505
storer1543
standel1544
stander1548
building-tree1607
stand1630
1543 Act 35 Hen. VIII, c. 17 §1 (1544) Dvj There shalbe left standing..for euery acre of woode..xii. standilles or storers of oke..[or] of elme, ashe, or beche.., the same stathilles or storers to be of such standilles or storers, as haue been left there standyng at any the fellyng..in time past.
1572 Agreement (Brasenose Coll. Oxf. Archives) (Hurst Cal. of Munim. 12, Hoddesdon 126) Storyars.
1670 J. Smith England's Improvem. Reviv'd 100 About 2 years after the planting one of the best plants is to be reserved as a Standil or Storer.
1721 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. II. 109 I divided my Trees into three sorts, viz. first Storers, which I reckoned all to be that were under 12 Inches Circumference; secondly, Saplings, which I called all under 24 Inches Circumference; and what was two Foot Circumference..I reckoned Timber~trees.
1792 Jrnls. House of Lords 13 Feb. 47 234/1 Storers or Saplings.
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the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > livestock > stock or breed > animals kept for breeding
storer1569
breeding-stock1840
1569 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 330 They have put fyve swannes upon the water to be storer for the Cytye.
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