Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rest for a lance, attached to the saddle of a man-at-arms; a lance-rest; a support for a spear.
- To place, as a lance or spear, in the feuter or rest.
- noun Obsolete variants of feature.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To set close; to fix in rest, as a spear.
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- noun Alternative form of
fewter .
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Examples
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None of which showed anything fun to drive well the feuter has arrived with the Tesla.
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Know as many of us remember watching the Jetsons and other show that depicted how we would be driving in the feuter.
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Know as many of us remember watching the Jetsons and other show that depicted how we would be driving in the feuter.
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None of which showed anything fun to drive well the feuter has arrived with the Tesla.
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Ector anon turned him shortly, and in feuter cast his spear, and smote the other knight a great buffet that his horse turned twice about.
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Then anon Sir Ector beat on the basin as he were wood, and then he gave his horse drink at the ford, and there came a knight behind him and bade him come out of the water and make him ready; and Sir Ector anon turned him shortly, and in feuter cast his spear, and smote the other knight a great buffet that his horse turned twice about.
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Pheuter or feuter means a rest or supportfor a spear -- which is informing.
Bacon is Shake-Speare Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence 1875
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