Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
pewterer .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word pewterers.
Examples
-
I've blogged before about the 19th-century writer Edward Willett (just one in a long line of Edward Willetts that have included pewterers, innkeepers, and other interesting people over the centuries).
"Lines: Fading" Edward Willett 2006
-
I've blogged before about the 19th-century writer Edward Willett (just one in a long line of Edward Willetts that have included pewterers, innkeepers, and other interesting people over the centuries).
Archive 2006-10-01 Edward Willett 2006
-
The master of all American pewterers gave it to me.
-
Leyden, -- Brewster and Winslow as printers, Allerton as tailor, Dr. Samuel Fuller as say-weaver and others as carpenters, wool-combers, masons, cobblers, pewterers and in other crafts.
The Women Who Came in the Mayflower Annie Russell Marble
-
Six of these are regular tea-manufacturers; the other two are pewterers, whose sole business is that of preparing lead casings for tea-chests.
-
His principal patrons were Henry Burgum and George Catcott, a pair of pewterers, the former vulgar and uneducated but very ambitious to be thought a man of good birth and education, the latter a credulous, selfish and none too scrupulous fellow, a would-be antiquary, of whom there is the most delightfully absurd description in Boswell's
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
-
The scene of the actual fair was within the priory gates in the churchyard, and there during the three days of its continuance stood the booths and standings of the clothiers and drapers of London and of all England, of pewterers, and leather-sellers, and without in the open space before the priory were tents and booths and a noisy crowd of traders, pleasure-seekers, friars, jesters, tumblers, and stilt-walkers.
Vanishing England 1892
-
Pewter and pewterers abounded until the vast increase of Oriental commerce brought the influx of Chinese porcelain to drive out the dull metal.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
-
Smiths, millers, pewterers, forgemen, and armourers could never be able to live in the perpetual noise of their own trades, did it strike their ears with the same violence that it does ours.
The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562
-
Smiths, millers, pewterers, forgemen, and armourers could never be able to live in the perpetual noise of their own trades, did it strike their ears with the same violence that it does ours.
The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 04 Michel de Montaigne 1562
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.