crowner

English

Etymology

Middle English

Noun

crowner (plural crowners)

1. One who, or that which, crowns.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Beaumont and Flanders to this entry?)

2. (obsolete, UK, Scotland) coroner
   • 1602 : William Shakespeare, Hamlet , act V scene 1

     The crowner hath sat on her and finds it Christian burial.

Anagrams

• recrown