fewter
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English feuter, fewtre, from Old French feutre, from Medieval Latin filtrum, of Germanic origin. Doublet of filter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfjuːtə/
Noun
fewter (plural fewters)
- A support or holder for a spear, attached to a saddle or breastplate.
- 1994, Jeanette Winterson, Art & Lies:
- From heaven the spear-light vertical in its fewter.
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Verb
fewter (third-person singular simple present fewters, present participle fewtering, simple past and past participle fewtered)
- (transitive) To rest (a spear) in its fewter.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.4:
- His speare he feutred, and at him it bore, / But with no better fortune than the rest afore.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.4:
Middle English
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