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  • noun Obsolete form of summoner.

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Examples

  • In which summation he showed himself indeed a "sumner," as it was called of yore.

    Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

  • I am a white woman over the age of 65 and would never consider voting for Hillary – other women candidates yes – Hillary no sumner

    Delegate update: Obama 35 away 2008

  • I haz tree kidlets, naow out ob skool for deh sumner.

    IZE SORRY I ENDANJURED U - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • A similar scene occurs betwixt a sumner of the Bishop of Rochester, and

    The Abbot 2008

  • I think it was this past sumner in Milton, Massachusetts.

    CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2003 2003

  • MALE VOICE: There'll be no flights to the Greek islands in the nuclear sumner.

    Hey! Luciani 1986

  • March, and he ordered that on the 17th day, being the fair of St. Patrick, at the height of the market, the said Katherine Kinrade should be taken to Peel Town in charge of the general sumner, and the constables and soldiers of the garrison, and there dragged after a boat in the sea!

    The Little Manx Nation - 1891 Hall Caine 1892

  • Similar were the doings at the digging of the potatoes, but the scenes of recrimination which often ensued were usually confined to the farmer and the sumner.

    The Little Manx Nation - 1891 Hall Caine 1892

  • When the oats were in sheaf, the parson's cart came up, driven by the sumner, the parson's official servant.

    The Little Manx Nation - 1891 Hall Caine 1892

  • What has become of the knight, the prioress, the sumner, the monk, pardoner, squire, alchemist, friar; and where can they or their equivalents be found in all England?

    A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

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