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storer|ˈstɔərə(r)|
Also 6 stoarer, storyar, Sc. storour(e, -are, storrour, stourour.
[f. store v. and n. + -er1.]
1. One who, or a thing which, stores or keeps in store.
1513Douglas æneis vii. ix. 23 Tirrheus thair fader was fee maister, and gyde Of studis, flokis, bowis; and heyrdis wyde, As storoure to the king, did kep and ȝime. Ibid. xii. Prol. 263 Welcum stourour of alkynd bestiall. 1540Palsgr. Acolastus ii. i. I iij, The storer of some well moneyed mayster .i. the keper or ouerseer of the prouision for householde. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxix. 10 Y⊇ trew rule of Godlynesse..whereof y⊇ church is y⊇ faithful storer. 1640T. Brugis Marrow of Physicke i. 55 Memory is the sure storer of all things, as in a magazine. 1864E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene 89 Sulphurous Acid Gas.—The bleachers in cotton and worsted manufactories, and storers of woollen articles, are most exposed to this gas.
b. One who hoards, lays by, or makes provision, for (a need).
1599Hayward 1st Pt. Life Hen. IV, 59 The King in peace no stoarer for war. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. i. 26 My Mother was a storer, a thrifty Wench. 1907Athenæum 14 Sept. 307/1 The coal-tit is undoubtedly a storer for the future.
†c. ? A partner or shareholder in a joint-stock undertaking. Obs.
1623in Trans. New Shaks. Soc. (1885) 499 The said Thomas Greene..was a fellow Actor or player of and in the Companie..of the late queenes Mati⊇ Queene Anne,..and a full adventurer, storer and sharer of in and amongst them.
d. One who stocks or peoples.
1690C. Nesse Hist. & Myst. O. & N. Test. I. 125 To him who was the first storer of the world [sc. Adam].
2. Something kept to produce a store or stock.
a. = standel 1. ? Obs.
1543[see standel 1]. 1572B.N.C. Munim. 24. 27, Storyars. 1670J. Smith Eng. Improv. Reviv'd 100 About 2 years after the planting one of the best plants is to be reserved as a Standil or Storer. 1721Mortimer Husb. II. 109, I divided my Trees into three sorts, viz. first Storers, which I reckoned all to be that were under 12 Inches Circumference; secondly, Saplings, which I called all under 24 Inches Circumference; and what was two Foot Circumference..I reckoned Timber⁓trees. 1792Jrnls. Ho. Comm. 13 Feb. 234/1 Storers, or Saplings.
†b. A number of animals kept for breeding. Obs.
1569in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 330 They have put fyve swannes upon the water to be storer for the Cytye. |