fewter
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Middle English feuter, fewtre, from Old French feutre, from Medieval Latin filtrum, of Germanic origin. Doublet of filter.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fewter (plural fewters)
- A support or holder for a spear, attached to a saddle or breastplate.
- 1994, Jeanette Winterson, Art & Lies:
- From heaven the spear-light vertical in its fewter.
Verb edit
fewter (third-person singular simple present fewters, present participle fewtering, simple past and past participle fewtered)
- (transitive) To rest (a spear) in its fewter.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- His speare he feutred, and at him it bore, / But with no better fortune than the rest afore.
Middle English edit
Noun edit
fewter
- Alternative form of feuter