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▪ I. ˈsingler, n. local.
[f. single v.1 7 + -er1.]
One who singles or thins out plants.
1878‘Saxon’ Gall. Gossip 333 (E.D.D.), Singlers, my boy, singlers;..they're always grumbling. 1886S.W. Lincs. Gloss. 131 She's gone singling, they can't get singlers enew. 1899Dundee Advt. 21 Nov. 4/2 The singler has more at his control in the making or unmaking of the crop than average observers imagine.
▪ II. singler
variant of sanglier, wild boar.
▪ III. † ˈsingler, a. Obs.
Forms: α. 5 sengler, 5–6 syngler (5 -e), 4–6 singler. β. 5–6 synglar (6 -e).
[ad. OF. sengler, seingler:—L. singulār-is singular a.]
= singular, in various senses.
αc1374Chaucer Boeth. ii. pr. vii. (1868) 57 Nat only þe names of singler men ne may nat strecchen, but eke þe fame of Citees. 1469Cal. Rec. Dublin (1889) 336 If any of the portoures goo owt with cariage into the contry, for ther sengler avayle. 1486Bk. St. Albans, Hawking b iij b, Iff ye haue a chastised hounde,..vncouple him..and goo to a sengler partrich. 1514in Eng. Gilds (1870) 146 To alle and syngler covenantes and grauntes. 1579Fenton Guicciard. vii. (1599) 295 Maximilian retaining still a singler ambition in this iorney, would admit no companion.
βc1470Henry Wallace xi. 241 Bot for a dog,..I will haiff nayn, bot synglar as I ga. c1500Sc. Poem on Heraldry 190 in Q. Eliz. Acad. 100 The quhiche stanis..ar so precyus singlare. 1542Udall in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 2 My singlar good Maister.
So † ˈsinglerly adv., singularly; † ˈsinglerty, singleness. Obs.
13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 429 Now for synglerty o hyr dousour, We calle hyr fenyx of Arraby. c1400Apol. Loll. 8 It longiþ to þe gretnes of God to graunt singlerly þeis priuilegs. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 714 Þe singlerte [L. solitudo] of þi lyfis ende. 1487Hen. VII in Epist. Acad. Oxon. (1898) II. 524 Wherby ye shall singlerly please us. |