portionern.
/ˈpɔːʃn̩ə/, /ˈpɔːʃ(ə)nə/, U.S. /ˈpɔrʃ(ə)nər/ I. A person who receives a share.† 2. figurative and in extended use. A person who has a share in anything. Obsolete.† 6. Any one of a number of workers who are each responsible for the production of part of a manufactured article. Obsolete. rare.
1. Scottish.
a. Originally: the proprietor of a small piece of land forming a portion of a larger piece which has been broken up, as by distribution among joint heirs (now historical). Later also more generally: a laird of a small estate.
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the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > landowner > small landowner
yeomana1387
portioner1476
goodman1540
esquire1600
little man1787
statesman1787
1476 in T. Thomson Acts Lords Auditors (1839) 41/2 Tueching the..detention of the landis..& withhalding of the fisching and havin of Panbryde be..Johne forbas ane of the porcionaris of the sadis landis of panbride.
1552 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 130 Quhair happinis to be sindrie portioneris of landis within the Schyir, the Scheref sall adjown the samyn togidder, quhill he mak the fouretie mark land of auld extent.
1626 in S. A. Gillon Sel. Justiciary Cases (1953) I. 49 Alexander Dudingstoun of Strykinnes, James Month portioner thair, Jon Cowart elder of Kingisbarnes, Alexander Brig portioner thair, William Donaldsone portioner of Polduf.
1674 in R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. (1721) I. 367 Robert Schaw Portioner in Auchmouty [fined] in 49 Pounds.
a1732 T. Boston Gen. Acct. of my Life (1908) vii. 107 An old house..formerly belonging to Andrew Home, sometime portioner there.
1791 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. I. 9 There are sixteen greater, and a considerable number (about a hundred) of smaller proprietors, called here Portioners, from their having a small portion of land belonging to them.
1833 Fraser's Mag. Oct. 396 My father belonged to that respectable class of landowners termed portioners.
1899 Shetland News 17 June James Jamieson, portioner of Veensgarth.
1935 G. Scott-Moncrieff Sc. Country 240 It is not so long since Perthshire had its pendiclers, who held pieces of land belonging to a large farm, and its portioners, younger sons among whom was sub-divided the land owned by a family.
1984 Eng. Hist. Rev. 99 876 Feu-ferm, a distinctly Scottish tenure... The social background of those who gained by feuing, what it helped make of them socially (bonnet lairds, portioners, etc.), [etc.].
b. heir portioner n. (plural heirs portioner, heirs portioners) each of two or more female heirs who jointly inherit in default of a male heir; (also) the son or male representative of such an heir; similarly heiress portioner.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > heir > female heir or heir through female ancestors > joint
heiress portioner1576
1576 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 571 Alisoun Dunbar ane of the airis portionaris of the lordschip of Loch and Kilconquhair.
1654 in Munimenta Alme Univ. Glasguensis (1854) I. 312 We Marion Boyd and Zacharias McCallum aires portionairis to umquhill Mr. Zacharias Boyd.
1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. ii. xiv. §17 297 Superiority falling to more persons, doth not obliege the Vassal to take infeftment of them all, but if heirs-portioners, of the eldest.
1722 W. Forbes Inst. Law Scotl. I. iii. 338 The principal Messuage, or Country-dwelling-house go to the eldest heir Portioner, without giving..any Thing in lieu thereof to the other Co-heirs.
1765 Act 5 Geo. III c. 26 Preamble The eldest heir female always succeeding without division and excluding heirs portioners.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor iii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 69 Six heirs portioners have successively died to make her wealthy.
1847 Times 7 May 8/1 In support of their title to pursue the action, and to establish their character as nearest heresses-portioners to the deceased.
1877 P. H. M'Kerlie Hist. Lands & Their Owners Galloway III. 262 He was succeeded by his son, Robert Maxwell of Breoch, whose mother was heiress portioner of that property.
1886 Act 49 & 50 Vict. c. 29 §19 The eldest of such heirs portioners shall succeed to the tenancy without division.
1914 Times 20 Mar. 5/2 The eldest heir portioner claims the mansion house of Cramond.
1947 Scotsman 8 July The first parties in the case, the nearest lawful heirs portioner in general of the late Robert Sibbald.
1993 H. L. MacQueen Common Law & Feudal Soc. in Medieval Scotl. viii. 235 Brieves of division were appropriate for disputes between heirs-portioner or their representatives.
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1516 in M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1908) I. 438/2 Ane half schip..quhilkis wes usit and occupiit be umquhile Johne Lauson portionar of the said schip.
1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall p. xix The rest are but portioners and possessors of old (as they alledge) of a kirk-buriall place.
1609 W. Cowper Three Heauenly Treat. Romanes ii. 221 He [sc. Satan] is reserued to blacknesse of darknesse, tribulation, and anguish of Spirit, terrour and horrible wrath, shame and endlesse confusion is prepared for him, and all those who are portioners with him.
1671 S. Slater Treat. Growth in Grace 263 Though he have a double portion, as the elder Brethren had; yet he will see to it, that all his Brethren shall become portioners with him.
1741 tr. Great Advantages Preserving Constant Sense of Divine Presence 134 Thou being Father and we Sons, we are Heirs of Thy Goods and Portioners of Thy Riches with Thy only begotten Son.
3. Christian Church. Any one of two or more incumbents sharing the duties and revenues of a benefice. Now historical.
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society > faith > worship > benefice > [noun] > one who possesses > who has one > who shares revenues with another
portionary1548
portionist1630
portioner1670
1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Portioner (..Portionarius),..where a Parsonage is served by two or sometimes three Ministers alternately..the Ministers are called Portioners, because they have but their Portion or Proportion of the Tythes or Profits of the Living.
1710 R. Newcourt Repertorium Ecclesiasticum II. 212 Some Person nam'd Bacon, who was Lord of the Mannor of Bacons, in this Parish, and gave the Tyths thereof to the Church of Denge, causing that Church to be serv'd, in part, by his Portioner.
1777 Ann. Reg. 1776 225/2 The Rev. Mr. Chambers, Rector of Cradley.., as also of Nanton, a Prebendary of Inkborough, and a Portioner of Bromyard.
1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 533/2 Portioner, a minister, who, together with others, serves a benefice, because he has only a portion of the tithes or profits of the living.
1944 Eng. Hist. Rev. 59 279 A church of portioners takes on the character of a small minster of secular clergy and may develop into a formal collegiate establishment.
1996 A. D. M. Barrell et al. in Z. Razi & R. Smith Medieval Society & Manor Court viii. 282 Ithel ap Robert, one of the portioners in Llanynys, who was abortively elected bishop of Bangor in 1357.
4. At the University of St Andrews: a student who boards with the principal of the college, and is entitled to receive a free ration of food; = portionist n. 1b. Now historical.
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society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > one living in specific place
portionist?1566
hosteler1577
hallier1587
oppidan1645
portioner1740
non-gremial1766
bursar1831
out-student1835
hosteleress1850
1740 in J. Grierson St. Andrews (1838) 179 Each portioner shall have for breakfast one-fourth of a loaf and one mutchkin of milk or ale.
1946 R. G. Cant Univ. St. Andrews 81 By the eighteenth century breakfast was served in the students' rooms. Different diets were prescribed for Bursars, Portioners, and Servers.
5. Law. Any one of several persons among whom a fund or estate may be distributed. Cf. portion n. 1c.
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society > law > transfer of property > settlement of property > [noun] > one upon whom property is settled > one of several
portioner1854
1854 Times 21 Oct. 4/3 So soon as the portions shall have been reduced to 20 the estates shall be sold and the proceeds divided among the then portioners.
1884 Sir E. E. Ray in Law Times Rep. 50 261/1 In none of the decisions or dicta has the prior right of the portioners to receive their portions out of the estate been questioned.
1955 Econ. Hist. Rev. 8 43 One instance of a family..producing few children needing portions cannot upset a general theory based on normally large families of three or four portioners a generation.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of other articles > [noun] > of part of finished article
portioner1879
1879 Globe 11 Oct. 1/4 Each of the several contributors—technically called portioners.
II. A person who or thing which portions or shares something.
7. A person who divides or shares something. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [noun] > one who
measurerc1443
distributor1526
distributioner1650
portioner1775
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Portioner, one that divides.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Portioner, one who divides or assigns in shares. [Also in later dictionaries.]
8. A machine or implement for measuring out portions, esp. of food. Frequently with modifying word.
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1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 10 May g1 One of the largest collections of pasta portioners, pasta drying racks,..and thousands of other pieces of kitchen equipment ever collected under one roof.
1993 Dairy Foods Mag. (Nexis) Jan. 46 The curd enters a portioning unit that feeds the molds. The portioner minimizes weight deviation.
1997 Scotsman (Nexis) 19 May 12 Cake portioner, whose two triangular leaves mesh together to create a wedge which can be placed on a circular cake to mark out anything between eight and 16 equal portions.
2004 Chem. Week (Nexis) 14 Apr. 32 For seventy years Bower has been developing quality mixers, blenders, dispersers,..and portioners for the adhesives and sealants, coatings and ink industries.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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