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† ˈcheaper, n. Obs. Also 6 cheper. [f. cheap v. + -er1.] One who bids a price, or inquires the price; a bidder, a purchaser.
a1529Skelton Maner of World Poems I. 151 So many chepers, So fewe biers..Sawe I never. 1539Taverner Erasm. Prov. (1545) 67 Bycause the cheaper shulde be the more wyllynge to gyue the reasonable & due price. 1553N. Grimalde Cicero's Offices iii. (1558) 140 [He] had required yt y price of y ground whereof he was a cheaper [emptor] shold once be shewed him, and y seller had so done. |