testern
English
Noun
testern (plural testerns)
- (obsolete) A sixpence; a tester.
Verb
testern (third-person singular simple present testerns, present participle testerning, simple past and past participle testerned)
- (obsolete, transitive) To present with a sixpence.
- 1590 or 1591, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 1 Scene 1 line 152
- To testify to your bounty, I thank
you, you have testern'd me; in requital whereof,
henceforth carry your letters yourself.
- To testify to your bounty, I thank
- 1590 or 1591, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 1 Scene 1 line 152
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 testern in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- Netters, entrest, netster, netters, retents, tenters