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smiter|ˈsmaɪtə(r)|
Also 3 smitar, 4 smitter, 4–7 smyter, 5 -ere.
[f. smite v. + -er1. So Fris. smiter, Du. smijter, G. schmeisser, etc.]
1. a. One who smites, strikes, or buffets; a beater, striker.
a1225Ancr. R. 156 Heo wule..aȝein þe smitare beoden uorð hire cheoken. a1300Cursor M. 6685 Þe smiter sal quite his lechyng, And þe scath of his liging. 1382Wyclif Isaiah l. 6 My bodi I ȝaf to the smyteres, and my chekes to the pulleris. 1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xviii. lxv. 280 Whan a lyon is wounded he..resyth on the smyter. 1535Coverdale Isaiah xxvii. 7 Smyteth he not his smyter, as euel as he is smytten himself? ― Lam. iii. 30 He offreth his cheke to the smyter. 1608A. Willet Hexapla Exod. 477 The smiter was to bee apprehended. 1664J. Tombes (title), Saints no Smiters; or, Smiters Civil Powers not the Work of Saints. 1813Byron Corsair iii. viii, Therefore came I..To smite the smiter with the scimitar. 1870Jebb Sophocles' Electra (ed. 2) p. vi, Pelops, smiter of horses.
fig.1869Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. 118 Lanfranc shone forth as the irresistible smiter of heresy.
†b. [After L. percussor.] An executioner. Obs.
a1380Virg. Antioch 253 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 30 A smiter ȝif þer beo to day, Me to sle, nou icomen in [etc.]. c1430Life St. Kath. (1884) 61 The batayl of my stryf fulfylled, I abyde the swerd of the smyter. c1440J. Capgrave St. Kath. v. 1885 The mayde leyde foorth hir nekke fayr & white, And thus she seyde on-to the smytere thoo.
c. One who applies a thing by striking. rare—1.
1670Pettus Fodinæ Reg. 41 Then the Smiter of Irons, after they be graved, smites them upon the Monie.
d. dial. (See quot.)
1823E. Moor Suffolk Words, Smiter, one who does any thing with energy; or in a striking manner.
e. Cricket. A hard-hitting batsman.
1897W. J. Ford in K. S. Ranjitsinhji Jubilee Bk. Cricket vii. 267 A little mercy should be shown to the muscular if unscientific ‘smiter’. 1897D. Moffat Crickety Cricket 25 Stoddart the smiter has carried his bat For a grandly made three-figure score. 1944E. Blunden Cricket Country iv. 53 Poor Charles could not solve the problem of getting this smiter caught in the deep field.
2.
†a. A weapon with which one smites; a sword, a scimitar. Obs.
Partly, if not entirely, suggested by simiter ‘scimitar’.
1591Lyly Endym. i. iii, It is my Simiter; which I by construction often studying to bee compendious, call my Smyter. 1593Nashe Four Lett. Conf. Wks. (Grosart) II. 202 Put vp thy smiter, O gentle Peter. 1633B. Jonson Tale Tub iv. iii, Put thy smiter up, and hear; I dare not tell the truth to a drawn sword. 1648Leg. Capt. Jones 2 His fatall Smiter thrice aloft he shakes.
b. Cant. An arm. rare—0.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew. [Hence in Bailey, Grose, etc.]
3. A variety of fancy pigeon (see quot. 1778).
1668Charleton Onomast. 76 Gyratices,..Clappers, & Smiters. 1676Willughby Ornith. ii. xv. 132 Percussores, Anglicè Smiters. 1678Ray tr. Willughby 182 Smiters..do not only shake their Wings as they fly: But also..clap them so strongly, that [etc.]... Our Country-men distinguish between Tumblers and Smiters. 1778G. White Selborne lxxxiv, Pigeons, and particularly the sort called smiters, have a way of clashing their wings, the one against the other, over their backs, with a loud snap. c1800D. Girton Pigeon Fancyer 107 The smiter..nearly resembles the tumbler, the size excepted, it being a much larger bird. 1854L. A. Meall Moubray's Poultry 277 Smiter.—This sub-variety, if it ever existed as distinct, has now entirely disappeared.
attrib.1783Latham Gen. Synop. Birds II. ii. 614 Smiter Pigeon, Le Pigeon batteur. |