mailern.¹

Brit.

/ˈmeɪlə/, U.S.

/ˈmeɪlər/, Scottish English

/ˈmelər/

Forms: pre-1700 malar, pre-1700 1700s mailler, pre-1700 1700s– mailer, 1700s mealler.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mail n.¹, -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < mail n.¹ + -er suffix¹.

Scottish.

1. A person who occupies a property in return for rent; a tenant farmer, esp. one who pays rent in money rather than in kind; (also) a cottager (see quots. 1792, 1793).

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > one who has tenure > [noun] > leaseholder or tenant

kindly tenanta1325

tenant1377

mailer1392

farmer1414

renter1444

takerc1450

fee-farmer1468

lessee1495

mail-man?a1500

tacksman1533

land-tenant1543

rentaller1553

fermerera1572

tenementer1574

mail-payer1597

inholdera1599

feu-farmer1609

leaseholder1858

leaser1877

1392 in W. Fraser Lennox (1874) II. 48 The sayde landis..to the forsayde Erill..as malar beforsayde.

1452 in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) II. 387 All the tenants and maillers being within my lands quatsomever sall remane with thair tacks and maling quhile Whitsonday come a year.

a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Wolf & Lamb l. 2744 in Poems (1981) 101 Lordis that hes land be Goddis lane, And settis to the mailleris ane village.

1565 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 358 Gif ony malaris, takkismen, rentalaris or commonis sal happin to be slane.

1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione Firmarius, ane mail~payer, ane mailer.

1636 in D. G. Barron Court Bk. Urie (1892) 30 The haill tennentis sick as are mailleris within the barrony..to content..the haill rest maillis.

1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. II. 560 A species of cottagers, here [i.e. in County Ross] called meallers, who build a small house for themselves, on a waste piece of ground, with the consent of the proprietor, and there, are ready to hire themselves out as day-labourers.

1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. VII. 254 Two classes, tenants and cottagers; or, as the latter are called here [i.e. in Ross and Inverness] mailers.

1894 Liberal 1 Dec. 69 His farm stock was better cared for than those of any other mailer in Netherclugh.

†2. A tenant's landlord. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > landowner

landlorda1000

lordOE

lairdc1379

mailerc1485

landman1562

heritor1597

landowner1742

land-proprietor1815

territorialist1845

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 96 Cristin men, yat ar duelland jn the mistrowand menis housis vndermalis, suld be lele to thair malaris, and obeisand.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mailern.²

Brit.

/ˈmeɪlə/, U.S.

/ˈmeɪlər/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mail n.², -er suffix¹, mail v.⁵

Etymology: In sense 1 < mail n.² + -er suffix¹; in subsequent senses < mail v.⁵ + -er suffix¹.

I. Non-personal uses.

1. Originally U.S. A boat which carries the mail; a mail boat.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > correspondence > postal services > person or vehicle that carries letters or mail > [noun] > vehicle or vessel > vessel

post-boat1582

post packet1634

post office packet1780

mailboat1786

mail steamer1843

mailer1857

mail ship1891

1857 Knickerbocker 49 58 To Halifax; thence by a British mailer across to those neighboring isles.

1883 Cent. Mag. Nov. 160/1 Showing the skill and good control On Transatlantic Mailers.

1933 L. A. G. Strong Sea Wall (1946) 139 Now..the mailer is coming in.

2. North American. = mailing machine at mailing n.³ Compounds 1.

ΚΠ

1890 Cent. Dict. 3582/1 Mailer,..same as addressing-machine.

1931 Kansas City (Missouri) Times 3 Nov. We must look over the mailer...Maybe we've lost 'em off our exchange list.

3. Chiefly North American.

a. A container (such as a cardboard tube) for the conveyance of items, esp. papers, by post.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > correspondence > postal services > equipment for sending or delivering mail > [noun] > container to convey items

mailing tube1889

postal tube1894

mailer1923

1923 Catal. Stationery (Zellerbach Paper Co., U.S.) 268/2 We manufacture the National line of Photo Mailers. They are made with a gummed flap and single corrugated reinforcement.

1934 A. Woollcott While Rome Burns 13 I regained custody of it and, with the print still rolled in its cardboard mailer, hurried around to the nearest picture-framer.

1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. (Mag.) 26/1 (advt.) Free film mailers on request.

1986 Master Photogr. Oct. 47/2 Special stickers available from the Kodak Fulham location must be applied to the outside of the mailer.

b. A (usually free) advertising pamphlet, brochure, or catalogue sent out by post; = self-mailer n.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > [noun] > promotional catalogue or sales brochure

mailing shot1936

lookbook1937

mailer1954

mailshot1963

magalogue1978

1954 C. M. Rowland Advertising in Mod. Retailing xi. 132 Two types of back-to-school catalog—the large one from a city department store, the smaller mailer from a children's suburban store.

1958 Massachusetts Rep. 337 492 The plaintiff spent some $5,515,000 for advertising, including expenditure for space in magazines..and for catalogs, mailers, displays, mats supplied to retailers, booklets, and other printed advertising.

1970 R. K. Kent Lang. Journalism 84 Mailer,..an advertising leaflet to be sent out by direct mail.

1987 Graphics World Nov.–Dec. 17 (advt.) You will have already received our mailer, extolling the virtues of the White Knight.

1991 Professional Heating Sept. 59/1 At the end of the warranty period, customers are sent a mailer offering breakdown insurance.

4. Computing. A program which provides users with the facilities necessary for reading, storing, composing, and sending electronic mail.

ΘΚΠ

society > computing and information technology > software > [noun] > applications program

application1959

applications program1959

application software1961

applications software1963

application program1964

CAD-CAM1971

mailer1976

app1981

1976 gopher://gopher.std.com/00/The Online Book Initiative/Networking/archives/msggroup/msggroup.0401-0500-z 26 Sept. (O.E.D. Archive) To: stefferud From: mailer Mail for Frankston at mit-multics not deliverable because: - Multics idiosyncrasy.

1983 Data Communic. (Nexis) Aug. 163 Each mailer serves a set of local mailboxes as well as interacting with other mailers.

1995 New Scientist 17 June 50/2 The book is aimed at anyone using the most popular PC, Mac and Unix mailers.

1997 Demon Despatches Winter 70/2 Intelligent agents,..mailer daemons, even the macro scripts you might use to log onto a frequently used service are all bots in Leonard's broad definition of the term.

II. Personal uses.

a. North American. A person employed to dispatch articles, esp. newspapers or periodicals, by post; gen. the sender of a letter or package by mail.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > correspondence > sending items > [noun] > one who

poster1770

mailer1884

1884–94 J. T. Perry in W. F. Crafts Sabbath for Man (ed. 7) 328 Editors and compositors are kept up until the small hours on Sunday morning; pressmen and mailers for an hour or two later.

1887 Bureau Statist. Labour, New York 490 Newspaper mailers.

1917 D. C. Roper U.S. Post Office 196 The responsibility for this delay..is almost invariably with the mailer.

1947 Chicago Sun 25 Nov. 3/5 Any arrangement..would be extended to the ITU's subordinate union of mailers.

b. A person whose job is to stack and sort newspapers ready for distribution to retailers.

ΚΠ

1965 Economist 25 Sept. 1207/1 The mailers have already announced that, regardless of the outcome at the [New York] Times, their members will not return to work until their contract is settled with all of the city papers.

1980 in S. Terkel Amer. Dreams 224 I used to work for the mailers, the guys who put the Sunday paper together.

1992 N.Y. Newsday 17 Jan. 21/2 Mailers bundle papers and prepare them for delivery.

6. South African slang. A person who purchases liquor from a shop and resells it to an illicit liquor dealer or shebeener. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trader > agent or broker > [noun] > middleman > buying up for resale or monopoly

regratorc1390

forestaller14..

regraterc1400

engrosserc1460

grey merchant1542

grosser?1542

forebuyer1558

ingrater1583

market-monger1629

pin-hooker1885

mailer1950

switch dealer1967

1950 Cape Times 17 June (Week-end Mag.) 5 As soon as the bottlestore opens, the mailer is there. He gets his regulation two bottles and takes this to the shebeen. Then he goes to another bottlestore for a further two bottles. And so he goes on the whole day.

1959 Cape Argus 14 Nov. 2/9 When we stopped the delivery the shebeens arranged for mailers to get the liquor for them.

1977 D. Muller Whitey 32 By this time the legal bottle-stores would be open, and the ‘mailers’—the runners from the shebeens big and small—would be at the counters.

1986 D. Case Love, David 110 ‘Yes, Oupa,’ David explained. ‘I was working with a mailer. The day that they caught us, I had a few parcels on me.’

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mailer
释义	mailern.¹ Brit. /ˈmeɪlə/, U.S. /ˈmeɪlər/, Scottish English /ˈmelər/ Forms: pre-1700 malar, pre-1700 1700s mailler, pre-1700 1700s– mailer, 1700s mealler. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mail n.¹, -er suffix¹. Etymology: < mail n.¹ + -er suffix¹. Scottish. 1. A person who occupies a property in return for rent; a tenant farmer, esp. one who pays rent in money rather than in kind; (also) a cottager (see quots. 1792, 1793). ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > one who has tenure > [noun] > leaseholder or tenant kindly tenanta1325 tenant1377 mailer1392 farmer1414 renter1444 takerc1450 fee-farmer1468 lessee1495 mail-man?a1500 tacksman1533 land-tenant1543 rentaller1553 fermerera1572 tenementer1574 mail-payer1597 inholdera1599 feu-farmer1609 leaseholder1858 leaser1877 1392 in W. Fraser Lennox (1874) II. 48 The sayde landis..to the forsayde Erill..as malar beforsayde. 1452 in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) II. 387 All the tenants and maillers being within my lands quatsomever sall remane with thair tacks and maling quhile Whitsonday come a year. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Wolf & Lamb l. 2744 in Poems (1981) 101 Lordis that hes land be Goddis lane, And settis to the mailleris ane village. 1565 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 358 Gif ony malaris, takkismen, rentalaris or commonis sal happin to be slane. 1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione Firmarius, ane mail~payer, ane mailer. 1636 in D. G. Barron Court Bk. Urie (1892) 30 The haill tennentis sick as are mailleris within the barrony..to content..the haill rest maillis. 1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. II. 560 A species of cottagers, here [i.e. in County Ross] called meallers, who build a small house for themselves, on a waste piece of ground, with the consent of the proprietor, and there, are ready to hire themselves out as day-labourers. 1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. VII. 254 Two classes, tenants and cottagers; or, as the latter are called here [i.e. in Ross and Inverness] mailers. 1894 Liberal 1 Dec. 69 His farm stock was better cared for than those of any other mailer in Netherclugh. †2. A tenant's landlord. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > landowner landlorda1000 lordOE lairdc1379 mailerc1485 landman1562 heritor1597 landowner1742 land-proprietor1815 territorialist1845 c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 96 Cristin men, yat ar duelland jn the mistrowand menis housis vndermalis, suld be lele to thair malaris, and obeisand. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mailern.² Brit. /ˈmeɪlə/, U.S. /ˈmeɪlər/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mail n.², -er suffix¹, mail v.⁵ Etymology: In sense 1 < mail n.² + -er suffix¹; in subsequent senses < mail v.⁵ + -er suffix¹. I. Non-personal uses. 1. Originally U.S. A boat which carries the mail; a mail boat. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > person or vehicle that carries letters or mail > [noun] > vehicle or vessel > vessel post-boat1582 post packet1634 post office packet1780 mailboat1786 mail steamer1843 mailer1857 mail ship1891 1857 Knickerbocker 49 58 To Halifax; thence by a British mailer across to those neighboring isles. 1883 Cent. Mag. Nov. 160/1 Showing the skill and good control On Transatlantic Mailers. 1933 L. A. G. Strong Sea Wall (1946) 139 Now..the mailer is coming in. 2. North American. = mailing machine at mailing n.³ Compounds 1. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. 3582/1 Mailer,..same as addressing-machine. 1931 Kansas City (Missouri) Times 3 Nov. We must look over the mailer...Maybe we've lost 'em off our exchange list. 3. Chiefly North American. a. A container (such as a cardboard tube) for the conveyance of items, esp. papers, by post. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > equipment for sending or delivering mail > [noun] > container to convey items mailing tube1889 postal tube1894 mailer1923 1923 Catal. Stationery (Zellerbach Paper Co., U.S.) 268/2 We manufacture the National line of Photo Mailers. They are made with a gummed flap and single corrugated reinforcement. 1934 A. Woollcott While Rome Burns 13 I regained custody of it and, with the print still rolled in its cardboard mailer, hurried around to the nearest picture-framer. 1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. (Mag.) 26/1 (advt.) Free film mailers on request. 1986 Master Photogr. Oct. 47/2 Special stickers available from the Kodak Fulham location must be applied to the outside of the mailer. b. A (usually free) advertising pamphlet, brochure, or catalogue sent out by post; = self-mailer n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > [noun] > promotional catalogue or sales brochure mailing shot1936 lookbook1937 mailer1954 mailshot1963 magalogue1978 1954 C. M. Rowland Advertising in Mod. Retailing xi. 132 Two types of back-to-school catalog—the large one from a city department store, the smaller mailer from a children's suburban store. 1958 Massachusetts Rep. 337 492 The plaintiff spent some $5,515,000 for advertising, including expenditure for space in magazines..and for catalogs, mailers, displays, mats supplied to retailers, booklets, and other printed advertising. 1970 R. K. Kent Lang. Journalism 84 Mailer,..an advertising leaflet to be sent out by direct mail. 1987 Graphics World Nov.–Dec. 17 (advt.) You will have already received our mailer, extolling the virtues of the White Knight. 1991 Professional Heating Sept. 59/1 At the end of the warranty period, customers are sent a mailer offering breakdown insurance. 4. Computing. A program which provides users with the facilities necessary for reading, storing, composing, and sending electronic mail. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > software > [noun] > applications program application1959 applications program1959 application software1961 applications software1963 application program1964 CAD-CAM1971 mailer1976 app1981 1976 gopher://gopher.std.com/00/The Online Book Initiative/Networking/archives/msggroup/msggroup.0401-0500-z 26 Sept. (O.E.D. Archive) To: stefferud From: mailer Mail for Frankston at mit-multics not deliverable because: - Multics idiosyncrasy. 1983 Data Communic. (Nexis) Aug. 163 Each mailer serves a set of local mailboxes as well as interacting with other mailers. 1995 New Scientist 17 June 50/2 The book is aimed at anyone using the most popular PC, Mac and Unix mailers. 1997 Demon Despatches Winter 70/2 Intelligent agents,..mailer daemons, even the macro scripts you might use to log onto a frequently used service are all bots in Leonard's broad definition of the term. II. Personal uses. 5. a. North American. A person employed to dispatch articles, esp. newspapers or periodicals, by post; gen. the sender of a letter or package by mail. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > sending items > [noun] > one who poster1770 mailer1884 1884–94 J. T. Perry in W. F. Crafts Sabbath for Man (ed. 7) 328 Editors and compositors are kept up until the small hours on Sunday morning; pressmen and mailers for an hour or two later. 1887 Bureau Statist. Labour, New York 490 Newspaper mailers. 1917 D. C. Roper U.S. Post Office 196 The responsibility for this delay..is almost invariably with the mailer. 1947 Chicago Sun 25 Nov. 3/5 Any arrangement..would be extended to the ITU's subordinate union of mailers. b. A person whose job is to stack and sort newspapers ready for distribution to retailers. ΚΠ 1965 Economist 25 Sept. 1207/1 The mailers have already announced that, regardless of the outcome at the [New York] Times, their members will not return to work until their contract is settled with all of the city papers. 1980 in S. Terkel Amer. Dreams 224 I used to work for the mailers, the guys who put the Sunday paper together. 1992 N.Y. Newsday 17 Jan. 21/2 Mailers bundle papers and prepare them for delivery. 6. South African slang. A person who purchases liquor from a shop and resells it to an illicit liquor dealer or shebeener. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > agent or broker > [noun] > middleman > buying up for resale or monopoly regratorc1390 forestaller14.. regraterc1400 engrosserc1460 grey merchant1542 grosser?1542 forebuyer1558 ingrater1583 market-monger1629 pin-hooker1885 mailer1950 switch dealer1967 1950 Cape Times 17 June (Week-end Mag.) 5 As soon as the bottlestore opens, the mailer is there. He gets his regulation two bottles and takes this to the shebeen. Then he goes to another bottlestore for a further two bottles. And so he goes on the whole day. 1959 Cape Argus 14 Nov. 2/9 When we stopped the delivery the shebeens arranged for mailers to get the liquor for them. 1977 D. Muller Whitey 32 By this time the legal bottle-stores would be open, and the ‘mailers’—the runners from the shebeens big and small—would be at the counters. 1986 D. Case Love, David 110 ‘Yes, Oupa,’ David explained. ‘I was working with a mailer. The day that they caught us, I had a few parcels on me.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1392n.²1857
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