feuterer
English
Alternative forms
- fewterer
Etymology
Either from German [Term?] (“feeder”), or corrupted from Old French vautrier, vaultrier, from vaultre, viautre (“a kind of hound”), from Latin vertragus, vertraga (“a greyhound”). The last is of Celtic origin.
Noun
feuterer (plural feuterers)
- (obsolete) A keeper of dogs.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for feuterer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)