feuterer

English

Alternative forms

• fewterer
• vewter

Etymology

Either from German Fütterer (“feeder”) (see füttern), or corrupted from Old French vautrier, vaultrier, from vaultre, viautre (“a kind of hound”), from Latin vertragus, vertraga (“a greyhound”). The last is of Celtic/Gaulish origin, from Proto-Celtic *uɸor- (“over”) + *tregess (“foot”).

Noun

feuterer (plural feuterers)

1. (obsolete) A keeper of dogs, especially of greyhounds.
   • c. 1621–1623 (date written), Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1632, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, signatures D2, verso – D3, recto:

     You yeoman phevvterer, conduct mee to / The Lady of the manſion, or my poniard / Shall diſemboge thy ſoule.

Further reading

• “feuterer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.