Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See feuter.
  • noun See feuter.

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  • noun a support or holder for a spear, attached to a saddle or breastplate

Etymologies

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Old French feutre, from mediæval Latin filtrum, of Germanic origin. More at filter.

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Examples

  • Far from oposing our match, this worthy gal had quite givn into it of late, and laught and joakt, and enjoyd our plans for the fewter igseedinkly.

    Burlesques 2006

  • Far from oposing our match, this worthy gal had quite givn into it of late, and laught and joakt, and enjoyd our plans for the fewter igseedinkly.

    The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006

  • But i shall tell yu more about theze things at sum fewter time.

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887

  • Far from oposing our match, this worthy gal had quite givn into it of late, and laught and joakt, and enjoyd our plans for the fewter igseedinkly.

    Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Heartily Sorry in my Sole My Wife appares to be the Same & I am of a pinion that We Shall Live More Happy than We have Don for the fewter. "

    George Washington: Farmer Paul Leland Haworth

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