† stotern.1
Obsolete. rare.
One who stutters.
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the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [noun] > one who speaks inarticulately > one who stammered or stuttered
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c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 477/2 Stotare, tituballus, blesus.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
† stotern.2
Obsolete slang.
A violent blow.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > striking violently > a violent blow
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1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. lxvii Vinet lent him such a swinging stoater with the Pitch-fork.., that down fell Signore on the ground.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Stoter, a great Blow. Stoter him, or tip him a Stoter, settle him, give him a swinging Blow.
1769 Stratford Jubilee ii. i. 28 Giving him a stouter on the noggin, I laid him as flat as a flaunder.
1785 in F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
† stoterv.
Obsolete slang.
transitive. To hit hard; to fell with a heavy blow.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (transitive)] > strike hard or vigorously
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > bring to the ground/lay low > knock down > specifically a person or animal > heavily
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1690 T. D'Urfey Collin's Walk i. 17 He..knew, by wisdom outward, What Ox must fall, or Sheep be stoter'd.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Stoter, a great Blow. Stoter him, or tip him a Stoter, settle him, give him a swinging Blow.
1705 J. Vanbrugh Mistake v. 48 Why, Madam, have you no Pity, no Bowels? [To Leonora.] Stand and see one of your Husbands stoter'd before your Face?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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