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Forms: 4–5 servere, 6 servar, 5– server. See also servier.
[f. serve v. + -er1.]
1. One who serves or ministers to the requirements of another. Now rare. Also, † a servant.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. I. 386 But Crist is among hem as a good servere. c1440Alphabet of Tales 60 Lo! yonder is his server. 1554Dyer's Acc. in Sharp Cov. Myst. (1825) 186 Payd to ij servers of the cressets iiij d. 1868Morris Earthly Par., Man born to be King 1277, I, who then Was but a server of poor men Outside our Abbey walls.
b. An attendant at a meal, one who serves food and drink to those sitting at table.
1460Bk. Curtasye 532 in Babees Bk., Þe seruer hit next of alle kyn men Mays way and stondes by syde. 1545Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camden) 21 Payde to the servers of wyne on Easter day. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d' Alf. ii. 67 The Napkin where-with hee seru'd as Seruer. 1784Scot. Piper's Queries 18 For one article having eggs the server of the table, as usual, laid the cloth on every one's knee, wherewith to hold their egg in when hot. 1868Morris Earthly Par., Land E. of Sun 3065 While the servers bore Unto the guests rich meats and drink.
†c. An artisan's assistant. Obs.
1481–90Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 382 Item, to Iohn Hege, his server, for iij. dayes iiij.d. ob. 1514MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., Payd to ij tyllars & ij seruars ij days. 1605Willet Hexapla Gen. 140 The seruer bringing one thing when the builder called for another. 1747Hooson Miner's Dict. S ij, This Server likewise carries away the Wash-Ore, to the Ore-Place, it being their Business.
d. With religious signification. Now arch.
[1530Tindale Answ. More Wks. (1573) 282/1, I..am an image seruer & walke after myne own imagination & not after Gods word.] 1600Palfreyman Baldwin's Mor. Philos. (ed. 4) 64 He cannot bee a true seruer of God, which serueth him not in the spirit of his minde, and in truth. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 446 Jupiter..made gods to be the curators of men, and he made men to be the worshippers and servers of those gods. 1900Pilot 3 Nov. 551/1 The servers of icons..demonstrated that the doctrine of their opponents led to Judaism and Manichæism.
e. Eccl. An assistant at Mass who arranges the altar and makes the responses.
1853Dale tr. Baldeschi's Cerem. 292 Before leaving the sacristy with the Priest, the Server will light the candles on the Altar. 1879Baring-Gould Germany II. 145 Two servers in surplices kneel before the altar in silence. 1894Westm. Gaz. 20 Sept. 2/1 Working men generally act as servers at the early daily celebrations.
f. In various games: The player who serves or puts the ball in play.
1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 296 Dator,..a player or seruer: he that in playeng casteth the ball. 1868Routledge's Ev. Boy's Bk. 269 (Rackets) In a close-court game, the ‘server’ who serves the ball properly above the line [etc.]. 1875‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Sports iii. i. v. §4. 690 The server [at lawn-tennis] then has to return the ball again, and so on till one player fails. 1897Encycl. Sport I. 399/1 (Fives) The Server. A who begins serving, is bound to give C..the sort of service which he prefers.
g. Anglo-Irish. = process-server.
1842S. Lover Handy Andy xiv, To..harry a bum, Or ‘clip a server’ [Footnote, Cutting off the ears of a process-server].
2. Something which serves or is used for serving.
†a. A conduit or pipe for conveying water. Obs.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 248 The Citizens likewise..deriued rilles and servers of waters into euery street.
b. = salver2.
1686Churchw. Acc. Pittington, etc. (Surtees) 208 One silver server or a patten with a foot to screw on and a leather case. 1727in W. Macgill Old Ross-sh. (1909) 133 Pewter spoons, server, basone, and potinger. 1816Scott Antiq. iii, A little bit of diet-cake, on a small silver server of exquisite old workmanship. 1821Galt Ann. Parish xii. (1895) 87 He took them [letters] both in to her ladyship on the silver server. 1894W. D. Latto Tam. Bodkin xxv, My share o' the tea was brocht to me on a server.
c. pl. A spoon and fork for serving salad.
1884Cyclist 13 Feb. 243/1 Salad bowls and servers.
Add:[2.] d. Computing. In a network, any program which manages shared access to a centralized resource or service; an (often dedicated) device on which such a program is run; freq. = file server s.v. *file n.2 11.
1972Proc. AFIPS Conf. XL. 264/2 This theory considers systems in which messages place demands for transmission (service) upon a single communication channel (the single server). 1978Computer Networks II. 314/2 In order to complete a transaction, a dialog takes place between a control process (the Controller) at a control point and a server process (the Server) at a service point. Ibid., One server operates only on one file at a time and one controller and one server cooperate only for one transaction at a time. 1980Times 4 Mar. 18/5 Access to other peripherals is obtained via ‘servers’ (eg for files, hard copy, names, time and messages) connected to the communications system. 1986Micro Decision Oct. 46/1 The server does not have to serve as a full-time job, and can handle the requests of other users in the background while working with a normal application program in the foreground. 1988Desktop Publishing Today June 24 A server hang-up caused by simultaneous access to identical files from different machines on the network. |