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forestaller|fɔəˈstɔːlə(r)|
[f. forestall v. + -er1.]
One who forestalls.
1. One who buys up goods before they reach the public market. Also forestaller of the market.
[1292Britton i. xxi. §11 Et ausi de forstallours.] 14..Chalmerlain Ayr i. (Sc. Stat. I.), Þe furth duelland for⁓stallaris of þe forsaid burgh. 1472Presentm. Juries in Surtees Misc. (1890) 25 Forstallers of samen comyng toward the markett in Selby. 1527Rastell Abridgem. Stat. s.v., Forstallers of wynes. a1626Bacon Max. & Uses Com. Law (1635) 11 They are..to punish Forestallers, regrators, and engrossers. 1712Hearne Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) III. 471 Goods forfeited by the Forestallers of the Market. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. (1872) III. iii. i. 101 A forestaller or two hung up at the doorlintels. 1881W. R. Smith Old Test. in Jewish Ch. xii. 347 The landowners became merchants and forestallers of grain.
†2. One who bars or obstructs the way. Obs.
1623Bingham Xenophon 62 They should..giue a signe with the trumpet, and descend and charge the forestallers of the knowne way.
†3. A taster. Obs. (? nonce-use.)
1611Cotgr., Preguste, a Taster, or Forestaller; one that takes th' essay of meats.
4. One who or that which acts in anticipation of another person or thing.
1870Daily News 15 Nov., That sweeping forestaller of letters, the telegraph. 1895Westm. Gaz. 9 Oct. 7/2 The..withdrawal of Red Heart..is the most severe blow which ‘forestallers’ have received. |