testern
English edit
Noun edit
testern (plural testerns)
Verb edit
testern (third-person singular simple present testerns, present participle testerning, simple past and past participle testerned)
- (obsolete, transitive) To present with a sixpence.
- c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], line 152:
- To testify to your bounty, I thank
you, you have testern'd me; in requital whereof,
henceforth carry your letters yourself.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “testern”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)