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▪ I. moulter, n. rare.|ˈməʊltə(r)|
Also 5 mowtare, 7 mooter.
[f. moult v. + -er1.]
A bird that is moulting.
c1440[see moultard]. 1611Cotgr., Albrent, a young wild Ducke; also, (a mooter, or moulter,) the old one when she mootes, or hath cast her feathers. 1820J. H. Reynolds Fancy (1906) 26 Have you not seen a pigeon, wheeling, fly Above a pigeon-house..; Lure one and all—the full-plumed and the moulter, The tumbler, and the carrier, and the poulter—Take them to other dove-cotes, there to die?
▪ II. ˈmoulter, v.1 Obs. exc. dial.
Also 6–7 molter, 7 moulter, -tre, 9 dial. multer, mouter, mowter.
[Perh. an altered form of moulder v., influenced by molten.]
trans. and intr. = moulder v. Hence ˈmoultering ppl. a.
1568T. Howell Arb. Amitie (1879) 71 But passe not those for moltring muck, the pestlent poole of woe. 1603Owen Pembrokeshire (1892) 70 The next showre of rayne maketh it [the lime] to Molter and fall into dust. 1631R. Byfield Doctr. Sabb. 52 Till..he may correct the fading and moultring discipline. 1632Florio's Montaigne iii. viii. 523 It [sc. religion] would have escaped and moultred [1603 mouldred] away betweene their fingers, if [etc.]. 1636Featly Clavis Myst. lxvii. 864 The Sea-mew..is forced daily to repaire it [sc. her nest], because every day the violent assault of the sea waves moulter away some part thereof. 1659in Glover's Hist. Derby (1829) I. App. 85 Afterwards they drew into a town, and moultered away, so that this morning there was not one left to appear. a1668R. Lassels Voy. Italy ii. (1698) 83 It's only time..that hath battered this Triumphal arch, and moultered even marble. 1808–80Jamieson, To Mouter, to fret, to fall off in consequence of friction or some similar cause... It is applied to friable stones, rotten wood, &c. 1881Leicester Gloss., Moulter..to moulder; applied particularly to fallow soil. 1890Gloucester. Gloss. s.v., Bricks..are said to moulter with the frost.
▪ III. † ˈmoulter, v.2 Obs.
[? f. moulter n.]
intr. and trans. To moult. Hence ˈmoultering vbl. n.
1632Marmion Holland's Leaguer ii. iii, Summer birds..that once a year..moulter. 1648Mayne Amorous War v. iii, Flying Like Owles by Twilight, and moultring these our feathers. 1681Grew Musæum i. iv. i. 55 On the top of his Head, hath a horny Crown, which falls off when he moulters. 1696Phil. Trans. XIX. 343 About Midsummer (when Moultering time is) several Persons,..with long Poles knock them [sc. Ducks] down. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), To Moult or Moulter, to cast, or shed the Feathers, as Birds do.
▪ IV. moulter
obs. and dial. form of multure n. |