Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
acater .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Purveyor; acater.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
caterer .
Etymologies
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Old French achateor, achateur, "buyer, provider", derived from achater "buy; provide", from Late Latin accaptare, from ad ("to") + captare ("strive for").
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Examples
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The official or servile class includes the manciple, or buyer for a fraternity of templars, otherwise called an achatour, whence Cator, Chater a, the Reeve, an estate steward, so crafty that — "Ther nas baillif, ne herde, nor oother hyne, That he ne knew his sleighte and his covyne" and finally the Cook, or Coke — "To boylle the chicknes and the marybones."
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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