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warrener|ˈwɒrənə(r)|
Forms: α. 3 warener, 4–5 waryner(e, warinar, 5 warenner, 6 warrennar, warryner, -eyner, -ainer, 6–7 war(r)iner, 7 warrenor, 7–8 warrenner, 6– warrener; Sc. and north. 5 warander, -dare, 6 warrander, varrandar, 9 (hist. and dial.) warrender; β. 4–6 warner, 5 -ere.
[a. North-eastern OF. warrennier (= Central OF., mod.F. garennier), f. warenne (garenne) warren n.]
1. a. An officer employed to watch over the game in a park or preserve. Obs. exc. Hist. b. A servant who has the charge of a rabbit-warren.
In the earlier quots. the two applications of the word cannot be distinguished with certainty.
α1297Placita coram Rege m. 25 b (1897) 165 Thomam le Warener de Fakenham. 1362Langl. P.Pl. A. v. 159 Sesse þe souters wyf sat on þe Benche, Watte þe warinar [1377 warner, 1393 warynere] and his wyf boþe. 1467–8Rolls of Parlt. V. 609/2 Th' office of Warenner, or kepyng of the Warenne. 1473Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879) I. 188 Tha sal gife twa akrys of land fre til our warander of our kunynȝare. c1500tr. Charter Lond. in Arnolde Chron. (1502) 6/2 Wythin whiche wareyn nether waryner ne forester nor Justice of our forest of her landis and wodes ne huntynge ne of repynge of her cornes entermet hem any thinge. 1551–2Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. X. 66 Item..to ane warrander send to Arrane to mak clapparttis for cunnynges, xl s̃. 1573–80Tusser Husb. (1878) 72 Get warrener bound to vermin thy ground. 1584Churchw. Acc. Pittington (Surtees) 17 Item given to the warrander for killinge of twoe foxes, xijd. 1598Shakes. Merry W. i. iv. 28. 1613 Markham Eng. Husbandman ii. ii. iv. (1635) 59 We see Warriners and Poulters sell Rabbets, a fat, and a leane ever coupled together. 1643Prynne Sov. Power Parl. iii. 17 May a Forrester, Warrener, or Keeper of a Parke, lawfully beate and kill another in defence of his..game? 1680Lond. Gaz. No. 1560/4 William Hooker, Warriner and Servant to George Vernon of Sudbury. 1770G. White Selborne, To Barrington 12 Apr., Warreners observe..that their rabbits are never in such good case as in a gentle frost. 1800Hull Advertiser 6 Dec. 1/2 The warren contains an ample breeding stock of rabbits... The warrener upon the premises will shew the same. 1829T. Brown Biogr. Sk. Dogs 529 Warreners..make use of nux vomica as a poison, which is not unfrequently concealed in a piece of raw meat, to entice foumarts and weasels to eat it. 1835App. Munic. Corpor. Rep. iii. 1714 [Among officers of Scarborough corporation] Warrener and Gamekeeper. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v., My father was warrender at Thorganby when I was born.
attrib.1591Greene Not. Discov. Coosnage Wks. (Grosart) X. 32 A cony-catcher..what is he a wariner felow?
β1377[see α]. c1440Promp. Parv. 517/1 Warnere, warinarius. 1485Rolls of Parlt. VI. 378/2 The Offices of Bailliff of the Manour and Lordshipp foren of Myche Marlowe,..and Warner, Wodward, [etc.]. a1500Tale K. Edw. & Sheph. in Hartshorne Anc. Metr. T. (1829) 45 The warner is hardy and fell. 1503–4Act 19 Hen. VII, c. 10 §7 The Office of Warner or Warnershipp of oure Waren of Methwolde.
2. One who owns or rents a warren. Also transf.
1846J. Baxter's Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 335 Warreners are sometimes liable to great losses from an epidemical disorder among rabbits. 1856‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Sports i. i. vii. §10 The sport of shooting rabbits is never carried on in the warrens, because the warrener does not wish his property wasted, and prefers trapping them. 1880Daily Tel. 27 Sept., Numerous parcels of ground let out formerly to warreners have been ploughed up. 1929R. Bridges Testament of Beauty iv. 114 Poor nomads..warreners of the waste.
3. A warren rabbit.
1864Peter Parley's Ann. VII. 325 The warrener burrows underground, and has the most valuable fur. |