beweeper
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English biweper, equivalent to beweep + -er.
Noun edit
beweeper (plural beweepers)
- (rare) One who beweeps or laments someone or something.
- 1917, Philip M. Raskin, “Spring and Autumn”, in Songs of a Wanderer[1], Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, page 224:
- The cornfield, laid waste by the reaper,
In mourning robes deeper and deeper,
The heaven, dead summer’s beweeper,
Shed tears for the joys that depart.