spurrier

noun

spurrier

noun

UK /ˈspʌɹiə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈspɝɹiɚ/

Etymology From Middle English sporiere; equivalent to spur + -ier.

1

Dated A maker of spurs.

  • Gods so; my Spurrier! put 'em on Boy, quickly1625 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Staple of Newes. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
  • saddlers and spurriers would be ruined by hundreds.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

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