Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who fishes with an otter. See
otter , n., 4.
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Examples
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Your vulgar writer is always most vulgar the higher his subject; as the man who showed the menagerie at Pidcock's was wont to say, 'This, gentlemen, is the Eagle of the Sun, from Archangel in Russia: the otterer it is, the igherer he flies.'”
Life of Lord Byron With His Letters And Journals Byron, George G 1854
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Your vulgar writer is always most vulgar, the higher, his subject; as the man who showed the menagerie at Pidcock's was wont to say, ” “This, gentlemen, is the eagle of the sun, from Archangel, in Russia; the otterer it is, the igherer he flies.”
Life of Lord Byron Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852 1854
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Archangel, in Russia; the _otterer_ it is, the _igherer_ he flies. "
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815
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Your vulgar writer is always most vulgar the higher his subject; as the man who showed the menagerie at Pidcock's was wont to say, 'This, gentlemen, is the _Eagle_ of the _Sun_, from Archangel in Russia: the _otterer_ it is, the _igherer_ he flies.'"
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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