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▪ I. slayer1|ˈsleɪə(r)|
Forms: α. 4–5 sleer, 4–6 sleere, 5–6 slear, 6 Sc. sleyar. β. 4 -slaer, -sloer, 5–6 slaar(e, slaer (5 sclaer). γ. 6– slayer (6 Sc. slayar).
[f. slay v.1 + -er1; the compound manslayer is found a little earlier. Cf. MDu. and Du. slager, MLG. slegere (LG. släger), OHG. slagari and slahari (G. schläger).]
One who slays or kills. Also in fig. context.
αc1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 151 Þei schullen be dampnyd..for sleeris of crist wiþ þe wickid iewis. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 373 Whan þe kyng was i-slawe, þe sleere fliȝ. c1400Apol. Loll. 54 Opun slears and traytors of þe schep. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 227 Then Hispias..commaundede the sleer of his brother to be taken. 1500–20Dunbar Poems ix. 50 God for till honour,..no sleyar to be. 1581Lambarde Eirenarcha ii. vii. 239 Any other, betweene whom and the slear there is no speciall ligeance.
βa1400–50Alexander 967 It gladis me..to ga þus to deth, To se my slaare..be sa sone ȝolden. c1470Henry Wallace xi. 1278 The fyrst has bene a gret slaar off men. 1533Bellenden Livy ii. xviii. (S.T.S.) I. 200 Sum allegis his fader was þe slaar of him. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. II. 210 The slaers of Drumm sulde be banist to France.
γ1547–64Baldwin Mor. Philos. (Palfr.) 185 Men ought not to weepe for him that guiltles is slain, But for the slayer. c1575Diurn. Occurr. (Bann.) 121 Ane of the alledgit slayaris of the king. 1631Gouge God's Arrows iii. §14. 211 When he slayeth a malefactour he is not to be counted a slayer of men, but a destroyer of evill men. 1737Whiston Josephus, Hist. vi. viii, The slayers left off at the evening. 1791Cowper Iliad iv. 536 The slayer o'er the maim'd Exulting. 1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 217 Each pestle's displayer, Who, living by drugs, proves humanity's slayer. 1884Manch. Exam. 10 May 5/5 The mutilators and slayers of pigeons.
▪ II. slayer2|ˈsleɪə(r)|
[f. slay v.2 + -er1.]
One who sets warps.
1881Census Instr. (1885) 64. 1899 Daily News 12 Jan. 2/1 Father,..Blacksmith. Boy,..Slayer. |