Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who owns or keeps a rabbit warren.
  • noun A gamekeeper.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name in Tasmania of certain large marine shells, such as species of Haliotis and Turbo. See mariner.
  • noun The keeper of a warren.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The keeper of a warren.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who farms or hunts rabbits professionally.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun maintains a rabbit warren

Etymologies

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warren +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Ay, forsooth: but he is as tall a man of his hands as any is between this and his head; he hath fought with a warrener.

    The Merry Wives of Windsor 2004

  • Ay, forsooth; but he is as tall a man of his hands as any is between this and his head: he hath fought with a warrener.

    Act I. Scene IV. The Merry Wives of Windsor 1914

  • "I have also to tell you that I have distrained Wat the warrener from his cottage, for his Christmas rent is still unpaid, nor the hen-rents of last year."

    Sir Nigel Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1906

  • "I have also to tell you that I have distrained Wat the warrener from his cottage, for his Christmas rent is still unpaid, nor the hen-rents of last year."

    Sir Nigel Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • It was before dawn on New Year's Day that they reached the cottage of Perks, a warrener or gamekeeper, who had been dismissed from Mrs Littleton's service for dishonesty.

    It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Emily Sarah Holt 1864

  • Yorkshire, and he was _obliged_ to leave the care of the warren entirely to the warrener, who was _obliged_ to quit his house during the snow, and to take shelter with a neighbour: he neglected to clear the walls; and Marvel upon his return home, found that his silver sprigs had strayed into a neighbouring warren.

    Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Maria Edgeworth 1808

  • But remember, that the warrener pays a high rent, and that therefore his rabbits are as much his property as his sheep.

    Stories for the Young Or, Cheap Repository Tracts: Entertaining, Moral, and Religious. Vol. VI. Hannah More 1789

  • Ay, forsooth: but he is as tall a man of his hands as any is between this and his head; he hath fought with a warrener.

    The Merry Wives of Windsor 1597

  • Ay, forsooth; but he is as tall a man of his hands as any is between this and his head; he hath fought with a warrener.

    The Merry Wives of Windsor William Shakespeare 1590

  • _ Ay, forsooth: but he is as tall a man of his hands as any is between this and his head; he hath fought with a warrener.

    The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] William Shakespeare 1590

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