faulter

English

Etymology 1

fault +‎ -er

Noun

faulter (plural faulters)

  1. (obsolete) One who commits a fault.
    • Fairfax
      Behold the faulter here in sight.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 faulter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Verb

faulter (third-person singular simple present faulters, present participle faultering, simple past and past participle faultered)

  1. Archaic spelling of falter.
    • 1818, John Keats, Endymion:
      The penitent shower fell, as down he knelt
      Before that care-worn sage, who trembling felt
      About his large dark locks, and faultering spake:
      Arise, good youth, for sacred Phoebus’ sake!
    • 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 176:
      “You know all, then?”—“I know nothing,” said Melmoth faultering.

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