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† inˈgrater Obs.
Also -or, -our.
[app. with same radical part as regrater: perh. a blending of in- or engrosser and regrater(-or).]
A regrater or forestaller.
1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 45 A sort of ingrators or forestallers, who intercept euerie thing before it come at the market. Ibid. 46 These hellishe ingratours, and forestallers make corne and all thinges else deere. 1611Cotgr., Dardanaire, a Regrator, Ingrater, Ingrosser; one that buyes, and hoords vp corne..with a purpose to sell it againe when tis growne deere. |