Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A scarecrow, or whatever frightens or turns aside or away.
- noun In hunting, one placed where he can turn the deer from going in a particular direction; a blancher.
- noun One who blenches or flinches.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See
blancher . - noun One who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete One who, or that which,
scares another; specifically, a personstationed to prevent theescape of thedeer during ahunt . - noun obsolete One who
flinches orshrinks back.
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Well enough," said Richard; "thine host shall not be a great one, but no man in it will be a blencher, for they be all champions of the Dry Tree."
The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865
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Chapmen were three old men, and more than one blencher besides.
The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865
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'I look to be no blencher in the battle,' said Face-of-god; 'that is not the fashion of our kindred, whosoever may be before us.
The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865
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Then the Lord sat silent, and seemed to be pondering: at last he said, as if to himself: "Yet there is one thing: many a blencher can sing of battle; and it hath been seen, that a fair body of a man is whiles soft amidst the hard hand-play.
The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865
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For I know thee no battle-blencher, but a valiant man of thine hands. "
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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