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▪ I. † graffer1 Obs.
Also 5 graffare, -ere, gryffar(e.
[f. graff v.1 + -er1.]
= grafter 1.
c1440Promp. Parv. 212/1 Gryffare, or graffare, insertor. 1565Jewel Repl. Harding 544 Husbandmenne, and Ditchers, and Heardmenne, and Graffers. 1572L. Mascall Plant. & Graff. Exhortation, Thus much haue I thought meete to declare vnto the Planters and Graffers. 1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard., Refl. Agric. 47 We shou'd not be much better Graffers than we now are without that Knowledge.
▪ II. † graffer2 Obs.
Also 7 graphiere.
[ad. F. greffier: see greffier.]
A notary.
1513–4Act 5 Hen. VIII, c. 1 Preamb., Officers..called Notaries otherwise called Graffers to accepte take and recorde the knowlege of all contractes. 1607Cowell Interpr., Graffer, signifieth as much as a notary or scrivener. 1615Hoby Curry-combe v. 238 Wee will say the Graphiere was a knaue. |