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† cather, cayther Obs. exc. dial.
[? a. Welsh cader chair, cradle, wooden frame.]
A cradle; a scaffolding.
1568Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camden) 129 Paid for poles and bordes to make the cather for the steple. [Cf. l30 For makinge of a cradelle to goe about the steple.] 1750J. Collier Wks. 66 (Lanc. Gloss.) Th' barn ot wur i' th' keather. 1859E. Waugh (ibid.) Keep th' keyther stirrin' gently. |