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▪ I. † ˈscurrier Obs.
Forms: α. 5 scurrour, 6 scurrer, skurrer, skyrrer; β. 6 scurreour, -iour, -ior, -yer, scurier, 6–7 scurrier.
[App. aphetic a. OF. descouvreor discoverer; cf. the Sc. forms discurrour, discuriour (14–16th c.), and the 14th c. skouerour s.v. scourer1. The coincidence of sense with currour, courier n. 2, has probably influenced the form. The It. scorridore (agent-n. f. scorrere to run out: cf. excur v.) has the same meaning, but there is no equivalent OF. *escoureor.]
One sent out to reconnoitre; a scout, avant-courier.
c1470Henry Wallace vii. 796 Apon the moss a scurrour sone fand he. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. (1812) II. xxxiii. 99 He sente forthe scurrers to aduyse the dealynge of their ennemyes. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 94 Claudius,..send his scurriouris to spy the nature of the cuntre. c1540tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden) 21 John Fastolf..had intelligence of his comming, by meane of scurryers. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 119 Then the Dukes skyrrers made profer afore the toune, out of the whiche issued a great compagnie of horsemen and skyrmished with the Dukes horsemen. 1607B. Barnes Divils Charter ii. i. C 4 b, Our scurriers, Are now return'd.
fig.1537St. Papers Hen. VIII, II. 491, I wolde not haue the Deputye, representing the Kinges person, be a comen skurrer for every lyght mater; but, whan he shulde begynne a warre, begynne it upon a juste goode grounde, and [etc.].
▪ II. ˈscurrier, n.2
[f. scurry v. + -er1.]
One who or that which scurries.
1890in Webster. 1949E. Hyams Not in our Stars xx. 266 They scurried or loafed about and both scurriers and loafers looked as helpless and purposeless as ants. 1986T. Barling Smoke iii. 75 ‘A regular scurrier is our Vic.’ ‘Any problems?’ ‘No. They made for the underground carpark like you said, Chas.’ |