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▪ I. feer, n.1 Only ME. and Sc.|fiːr|
Forms: 3 feor, 8– Sc. fiar, fier, feer.
[ME. feor a. OF. feor, feur, fuer fixed price, standard: L. forum (in class. L. market).]
†1. A price. Obs.
a1225Ancr. R. 398 Sete feor o ðine luue. a1240Wohunge in Cott. Hom. 287 Ȝif þat i mi luue bede for to selle and setle feor þer upon swa hehe swa ich eauer wile. c1320Cast. Love 1091 Ȝif þou wilt him bugge to his feore.
2. Sc. See quot. and fiars.
18..Jamieson, Fier, Feer, a standard of any kind. Yarn is said to be spun by, i.e. beyond, the fier, when it is drawn smaller than the proper thickness.
▪ II. † ˈfeer, n.2 Obs. rare.
See also fiar.
[f. fee v. + -er1.]
One who fees or gives a fee to another.
1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 34 They are..in fee with the Drapers, that if a man come to them to desire them to helpe them to buy a piece of cloth..they will straightway conduct them to their feer.
▪ III. feer, n.3 Mining.|ˈfɪə(r)|
[f. fee v.2 + -er1.]
One who fees or loads up the coal.
1883Gresley Gloss. Coal Mining, Feer.
▪ IV. † feer, fere, a. Obs. rare.
[a. OF. fer, fier (mod.Fr. fier.) = Pr. fer, It. and Sp. fiero:—L. fer-us: see fierce.]
Bold, fierce; proud.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Eufemia 141 Þe Juge fel & fere. ― Tecla 217 Syne come a lyone fel & fere. c1380Sir Ferumb. 329 A knyȝt ful feer. Ibid. 414 Roland ys..so coraious & so fere. c1450Guy Warw. (C.) 1428 He was a bolde man and a fere.
▪ V. feer, v.|fiːr, fɪə(r)|
Forms: 5 fere, 8–9 feer, 9 Sc. feir.
[Perh. (as suggested by Jamieson) repr. OE. fyrian to make a furrow (:—*furhjan), f. furh furrow n.; for the phonology cf. beir, beere as variants of birr n.]
‘To mark off the breadth of every ridge (of land) for ploughing, by drawing a furrow on each side of the space allotted for it’ (Jam.).
c1400York Manual (Surtees) 224* Yee shale praye for all lande tilland and lee ferand. 1862J. Wilson Farming vi. 206 This operation—called in Scotland feiring the land—is usually entrusted to the most skilful ploughman on each farm. 1881Leicestersh. Gloss. s.v., To feer land, is to set it out as it is intended to be ploughed.
▪ VI. feer(e
obs. form of fear.
▪ VII. feer(e
var. of fere n., Obs. companion. |