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▪ I. † ˈfaulter Obs.
Forms: 6 faltar, -our, faughter, (faultor, 7 faultour, fawter), 6–9 Sc. fauter, -or, 6–8 faulter.
[f. fault v. + -er1, and -our, -or; OF. had fautier adj. guilty.]
One who commits a fault; a culprit, delinquent, offender.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 544 Of sic faltouris thair haif tha brocht fyve hunder. 1556J. Heywood Spider & F. xxiv. 10 The faughter..To saue his lyfe, apealth to be repride. 1602Henley in Arden Rolls, A Presentment of all the ffaultes and fawters 13 Octr. 1602. 1634Heywood Mayden-head well Lost ii. Wks. 1874 IV. 120 Punish the faulter, and the innocent saue. 1708J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. ii. ix. (1743) 81 To the Lord High Admiral belongs..the goods of Pirates, Felons, or Capital Faulters. a1796Burns Here's his health in Water 2 Tho' he be the fautor..Yet here's his health in Water. 1840Whistlebinkie (1890) I. 253 I'se no be sic a fauter.
▪ II. faulter
obs. form of falter v.1, v.3
▪ III. faulter, -our
bad forms of fautor. |