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▪ I. renter, n.1|ˈrɛntə(r)|
[f. rent v.1 + -er1.]
†1. One who owns or lets lands or tenements; a proprietor. Obs. rare.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love i. vii. (Skeat) l. 110 Some of hem tooken money for thy chamber, and putte tho pens in his purse, unwetinge of the renter. c1470Gol. & Gaw. 403 He is the riallest roy, reuerend and rike, Of all the rentaris to ryme or rekin on raw.
†2.
a. One who collects rents (esp. those belonging to a corporate body), taxes, or tribute. Obs.
1557Order of Hospitalls E viij b, The Renters Charge..is, Quarterly to collect and gather..all those Rents that shalbe contayned in a Rentall. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 108 We will..that our speciall renter of our foresaid realmes..paye by yere a thousand mark of siluer. 1762Chron. in Ann. Reg. 721 The sieur Massonet, renter of the abbey of St. Antony..in Viennois, has a son.
b. attrib. as renter-accompt, renter-clerk, renter-warden.
1708J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. ii. iii. (1710) 656 Auditors of the *Renter-Accompt.
1552in Vicary's Anat. (1888) 316 To the *Renterclerk..x.l.
1631T. Powell Tom All Trades (1876) 148 A Bucke at the *Renter Wardens feast. 1903Daily Chron. 20 Jan. 6/7 Mr. Ashby, formerly renter warden of the Armourers and Braziers' Company.
3. A farmer of tolls or taxes. rare.
1598Florio, Appaltatore, a hucster, a retailer, a renter.., a farmer of any thing. 1798Monthly Mag. VI. 395 Mr. Rogers, renter of the bridge-tolls [at Worcester]. 1817Jas. Mill Brit. India II. iv. vi. 231 Like other renters of India, [he] had..an inclination to withhold..the sum which he engaged to pay out of the Taxes [etc.].
4. a. A holder of lands, houses, or other property, by payment of rent.
1655Boston (U.S.) Rec. (1877) II. 125 A considerable part of the rent due..is nott brought in by the renters of the land according to the contract with the towne. 1766Museum Rust. (ed. 2) I. 96 A renter but of between four and five hundred acres of land. 1831Act 1 & 2 Will. IV, c. 38 §16 The renters of pews in such church or chapel. 1884Dickens' Dict. Lond. 244/1 The renter of a private wire has the..apparatus entirely under his own control.
b. spec. A tenant-farmer.
a1661Fuller Worthies, Essex (1662) 334 When a Renter [he] impoverished himself, and never inriched his Landlord. 1733Tull Horse-hoeing Husb. Pref. 13 Can we suppose that an English Renter should have more Honour in that Respect than his Roman Holiness..? 1792Burke Let. to Sir H. Langrishe Wks. VI. 313 Substantial renters, opulent merchants..could not easily be suspected of riot in open day. 1882Sweet & Knox Sk. Texas Siftings 51 The joyful glee of farming with negro renters ‘on the shares’. 1938Mississippi (Fed. Writers' Project) 104 Renters, who hire land for a fixed amount to be paid either in crop values or in cash. 1970J. Blackburn Land of Promise viii. 119 He was on his way to see a renter on one of his farms south of town.
5. A shareholder in a theatre. rare.
1807C. W. Janson Stranger Amer. 251 The renters who had subscribed to the building of a large theatre in the park of New York. 1893Daily News 30 Jan. 2/1 The ‘Renters’ of Drury Lane Theatre are rejoicing over a dividend for the past year of 12l. 1s. per share.
6. A male prostitute. slang.
1893O. Wilde Let. Mar. (1964) 336, I would sooner be blackmailed by every renter in London, than have you bitter, unjust, hating. 1895Beerbohm Let. 3 May (1964) 103 It was horrible leaving the court day after day and having to pass through a knot of renters. 1969Jeremy I. iii. 22/2 Renter, male prostitute. 1972D. Sutton Lett. R. Fry I. 5 In many cases ‘affairs’ were more idealistic than that practised by the ‘renters’ of Piccadilly.
7. One who organizes the distribution of films to exhibitors.
1908Variety 16 May 11 There are other and larger questions pressing the attention of the exhibitor, renter and manufacturer. 1911D. S. Hulfish Cycl. Motion-Pict. Work II. 112 The film industry is definitely separated into three branches: manufacturer, renter, and exhibitor. The renter owns the picture films. 1920I. P. Gore in L. Carson ‘Stage’ Year Bk. 1920 52 The success which attended the efforts of the exhibitors, renters, and manufacturers, to combat the peril with which they were confronted. 1927Melody Maker Aug. 820/2 The renters could render far more assistance..if they would take more interest in the showing of their films at every cinema where they are booked. 1940Economist 13 July 43/1 To ensure that a minimum number of films are made, renters must produce or acquire one British film.
Add:8. Something that is rented or hired out, esp. a rental car or videocassette. colloq. (chiefly U.S.).
1979‘L. Egan’ Hunters & Hunted x. 176 ‘New car?’..‘No, I'll have to get one. This is a renter’. 1986Video Today Apr. 49/2 There is also a best of category selection and a chart of the year's best renters. 1986R. Ford Sportswriter v. 129 We would end up..driving out in my renter to some little suburban foot-lit lanai apartment.
▪ II. † ˈrenter, n.2 Obs.
[f. rent v.2 + -er1.]
One who rends or tears (chiefly in fig. senses).
a1540Barnes Wks. (1573) 354/1 You may conclude that you bee..vnlearned stockes, peruerters, tearers, renters, of holy scripture. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 196, I was resolved not to engage with a renter of the Church. 1738W. Wilson Def. Ref. Prin. Ch. Scot. Pref. (1769) 6 Are they therefore schismatics, renters and ruiners of the Church? 1784J. Brown Hist. Brit. Churches (1820) II. vi. 297 The public resolutioners persecuted them with manifold reproaches, as ruiners of their king and country,..as renters of the church.
▪ III. ˈrenter, v.
[ad. F. rentrer, rentraire: cf. ranter v. The entries in Chambers are derived from Furetière's Dict. Univ. (1690).]
1. (See quots.) Hence ˈrentering vbl. n. Also attrib.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), To renter, to sow Cloth after a particular manner, to fine-draw. 1727–38Chambers Cycl., Rentering and Fine-drawing in the manufactories, the sewing of two pieces of cloth, edge to edge without doubling them, so that the seam scarce appears at all. 1901P. N. Hasluck Tailoring 21 There are three kinds of absolutely invisible stitches which are used to repair tears... They are stoating, fine-drawing, and rentering. 1921[see invisible a. 1 f]. 1955J. E. Liberty Pract. Tailoring (ed. 2) iii. 24 Seaming and rentering{ddd}this is used in place of stoting when the material does not lend itself to being stoted.
†2. (See quot.) Hence † ˈrenterer. Obs.
1727–38Chambers Cycl. s.v. Rentering, To renter in tapestry, is to work new warp into a piece of tapestry..damaged and on this warp to restore the ancient pattern or design. Ibid., Among the titles of the French tapestry-makers is included that of renterers. |