rantern.

Brit.

/ˈrantə/, U.S.

/ˈræn(t)ər/

Forms: 1600s– ranter, 1800s– ranthar (Manx English), 1800s– ranther (English regional (Yorkshire)).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rant v., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < rant v. + -er suffix¹.

1. A person who talks or declaims noisily, bombastically, or vehemently (in early use esp. in preaching).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > one who speaks > [noun] > in specific ways

speakera1340

breatherc1384

boasterc1400

rattlerc1449

brawler1581

shredder1592

venter1611

speak-truth1614

ranter1649

bawler1656

yelper1673

mouther1746

spouter1759

oralist1867

mushmouth1868

loudmouth1870

megaphonist1906

1649 O. Cromwell Let. 14 Nov. (1904) I. 504 There went also, with this party, Sir Thomas Armstrong, Colonel Trevor, and most of their great ranters.

a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 339 How empty these Self, but shallow conceited Ranters are,..They place all Gallantry and Worth in Valour.

1726 C. Ellison Most Pleasant Descr. Benwel Village 318 Each arch Wight Takes great Delight To act th'abusive Ranter.

1786 Gentleman's Mag. 56 i. 305 Some other ranters and rhapsodists.

1826 W. Scott Woodstock II. x. 259 A wild ranter in religious opinions.

1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars i. 48 Rome has found a place for the dreamiest mystic or the noisiest ranter.

1945 G. Millar Maquis vi. 128 He was a ranter, was Tom. He told us repeatedly..how fundamentally he desired to go out and kill Germans.

1995 M. Amis Information (1996) 173 The nineteenth-century American angel, the Messiah of the wild-goose chase in whose name the bearded ranter trudged from house to house.

2. Chiefly in plural. Also with capital initial. Now historical.

a. (A name applied to) a member of a group of religious radicals of the early 1650s, who argued for complete reliance on the inspiration of God's spirit, rejecting religious authority and formal worship, denied the reality of sin and the physical existence of heaven and hell, and gained a reputation for ostentatiously promiscuous, drunken, or blasphemous behaviour. depreciative in early use.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > antinomianism > [noun] > ranting > person

ranter1650

1650 J. Taylor Late Weary, Merry Voy. 12 That I may say of London, what a Town ist... There's roome for Ranters, and alas how apt ist To harbour the ungovern'd Annabaptist?

1652 R. Brome (title) The joviall crew, or the Devill turn'd Ranter: a comedie, containing a true discovery..of a sect (lately sprung up amongst us) called Ranters.

1667 L. Stuckley Gospel-glasse (1670) xxxii. 319 Seekers, Ranters, and Quakers, have took occasion to cry down the Office of the Ministry.

1722 B. Star tr. Mlle. de St. Phale vii. 192 Had they been born Ranters, or Papists, or Jews, they would not have changed their Religion.

1799 H. Adams Summary Hist. New-Eng. vii. 101 The general court of Connecticut, in October, 1656, passed an act, which prohibited the towns in their jurisdiction from entertaining any Quakers, Ranters, or other heretics.

1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) II. 217 The priests and magistrates were not more violent against him [sc. George Fox] than the Ranters.

1897 S. R. Gardiner Hist. Commonw. (1903) II. xviii. 91 Such a doctrine [of an inner light]..had led the Ranters into a belief that sin was no sin to those who, being spiritual, willed to do evil.

1971 K. Thomas Relig. & Decline of Magic vi. 170 The Ranters denied the immortality of the soul, the literalness of the Resurrection, the overriding authority of the Scriptures, and the physical existence of Heaven and Hell.

1994 Queen's Q. Fall 690 The charges of blasphemy brought against various Ranters in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

b. In the 19th cent. (somewhat depreciative): (a name applied to) a member of any of several Nonconformist groups, esp. = Primitive Methodist n. at primitive n. and adj. Compounds 2.Quot. 1823 connects this sense with rant v. 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Methodism > Methodist sects and groups > [noun] > primitive > person

Primitive Methodist1791

ranter1821

primitive1855

Prim1949

1821 Examiner 8 Apr. 218/1 The new religious sect ‘Bryanites’, or ‘Ranters’, which lately arose in the Midland Counties, is gradually making a progress into others.

1823 H. Bourne Hist. Primitive Methodists 49 When these..meetings were closed, the praying people, in returning home, were accustomed to sing through the streets at Belper. This circumstance procured them the name of Ranters; and the name of Ranter, which first arose on this occasion [in 1814], afterwards spread very extensively.

1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 143/1 The Primitive Methodists, who are sometimes known as Ranters, originated in Staffordshire.

1862 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. II. v. 174 Those having a too lively imagination..become Mormonites and Ranters.

1916 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 3 270 The Primitive Methodists, commonly known as ‘ranters’.

1980 E. P. Thompson Making of Eng. Working Class (ed. 3) xi. 426 As orthodox Wesleyanism throve, so also did breakaway groups of ‘Ranters’—the Welsh ‘Jumpers’ (cousins to the American ‘Shakers’), the Primitive Methodists, the ‘Tent Methodists’, [etc.].

2003 Church Times 23 May 15/2 Primitive Methodists, the Ranters, who split from the Wesleyans, produced leaders for early trade unions in mining and agriculture.

a. A noisy, riotous, dissolute person; a rake. Now archaic and rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [noun] > person

unthriftc1330

riotor1389

rioterc1440

palliard1484

skyrgalliarda1529

rakehellc1560

ranger1560

rakeshame1598

dissolute1608

pavement-beater1611

rakell1622

ranter1652

huzza1660

whorehopper1664

profligate1679

rakehellonian1692

rake1693

buck1725

blood1749

gay blade1750

have-at-alla1761

rakehellyc1768

hell-rake?1774

randan1779

rip1781

roué1781

hell-raker1816

tiger1827

raver1960

dog1994

1652 Mercurius Politicus No. 123. 1939 His [sc. Charles Stuart's] Affairs are defunct, because the Ranters about him are very pensive and silent; which is not usual, when the world goes on their side.

1681 T. Jordan London's Joy 13 We Sing, Dance, and trip it, as Frolick as Ranters.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 486. ¶1 The Hazards of a Town full of Ranters and Debauchees.

1776 Blockheads iii. iii. 16 I have outstay'd my day of grace, and find I must follow these ranters a wild goose chase over land and sea.

1844 H. W. Beecher Seven Lect. to Young Men vii. 173 To..gaze at drunken ranters, or cry at the piteous virtue of harlots in distress.

1889 R. L. Stevenson Master of Ballantrae xi. 292 Some were reputed pirates, the most hawkers of rum; all ranters and drinkers.

1901 G. H. Perris Life & Teachings Leo Tolstoy (1904) Introd. 20 There is not a word of preaching from end to end; the Russians are men and brothers; the hero is neither a coxcomb nor a ranter.

†b. Scottish. A person who sings or plays a musical instrument in a lively manner. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > other types of singer > [noun] > other singers

knackerc1380

jubilist1471

sol-faer1609

serenader1677

comic singer1753

ranter1769

country singer1790

caroler1806

chansonnier1822

troller1824

cantabank1834

triller1873

lion comique1899

chantwell1909

red-hot mama1924

song stylist1931

singer-songwriter1949

playback singer1963

1769 D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Scots Songs i. 136 I'm a piper to my trade, My name is Rob the Ranter.

1778 Charms of Chearfulness 144 Now for it my ranter, one tune of your chanter, Shall beat the harp, hautboy or fiddle.

1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair i. x. 9 I see the Ranter with bagpipe on back.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 331 It was never your mother's custom, and it shall never be mine, to take up with ranters, and jugglers, and singing women.

Derivatives

ˈranter-like adv. and adj.

ΚΠ

1658 J. Bunyan Sighs from Hell 250 Thou wilt Ranter-like turn the Grace of God into wantonness.

1695 G. Keith True Copy Paper given to Quakers 29 W. P. phraseth it, (more Ranter like, than a sober Christian).

1849 D. Rock Church our Fathers II. 393 Latimer..so ranter-like in logic and language.

1988 P. Linebaugh in G. Eley & W. Hunt Reviving Eng. Revol. 211 We see it in Newgate chapel during the sermons for the condemned when the malefactors sometimes set up a Ranter-like counter-theatre of laughter, profanity and song.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

ranterv.

Brit.

/ˈrantə/, U.S.

/ˈræn(t)ər/

Forms: 1700s– ranter, 1800s– rander (English regional (Yorkshire)); Scottish pre-1700 raintter, pre-1700 rambter, pre-1700 rantre, pre-1700 rantter, pre-1700 1800s– ranter, pre-1700 1900s– rantar, 1800s– rander (northern).

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French rentraire.

Etymology: < French rentraire to seam (1387 in Middle French), to darn (1611 in Cotgrave) < Middle French re- re- prefix + entraire to pull, to draw (c1160 in Old French), to seam (c1165) < classical Latin intrahere to drag along (see intracted adj.). Compare renter v.

Now rare.

1. transitive. Chiefly Scottish. To darn, mend, sew; to stitch together. Also figurative.Sometimes: (Scottish) to reinforce the heels of (new stockings) with stitching. Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records this sense as still in use in Orkney, Caithness, and Lothian in 1967.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > sew > repair or mend

draw1592

darnc1600

to draw up1603

ranter1607

fine-draw1665

clobber1851

plain-darn1880

1607 [see rantering n. at Derivatives].

1626 in J. Imrie & J. G. Dunbar Accts. Masters of Wks. (1982) II. 192 To Thomas Johnstoune saidler for covering of four lang furmes.., to Androw Blaikie that helpit him and that mendit and ranterit uther thrie furmes..xviii s.

c1631 Acct. Bk. J. Doune 18b Ane coit dowblet & breikis of gray claith wroicht with howpting and raintterd.

1676 in Fountainhall's Decisions in M. P. Brown Suppl. Dict. Decisions Court of Session (1826) III. 86 He bade the defender ranter the two ends of an inconsistency he was urging together.

1715 J. Browne & W. Oldisworth State Tracts I. 237 He was..Rantering the Seams of an Old Farmer's New Doublet.

1757 J. Dove Dissertation 3 I had so rantered the two latter [people] together, that to attempt to separate them, would be to tear them limb from limb.

1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) (at cited word) Ranter,..to darn.

1916 John o'Groat Jrnl. 7 Apr. in Sc. National Dict. (1968) 7 351/2 Stockings were always ‘randered’ in those days.

1922 J. Wight Tantersome Tibbockie in J. D. McClure Doric v. 142 A wheen idder orra trock war rantered onen a skelf.

2. transitive. spec. To sew together (two edges of cloth) very neatly with fine stitching, so that the join is barely perceptible; = renter v. 1. Also intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

fine-draw1665

renter1699

ranter?1796

?1796 Taylor's Compl. Guide iv. xi. 158 A surplus both of the inside and outside must be left on the cloth in width, to make as much as will turn round the arm to be rantered or fine drawn underneath.

1808 in J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (at cited word) To Ranter,..to sew a seam across so nicely that it is not perceived.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) 273 Ranter, to sew up a rent in a garment, or to apply a patch over it, so neatly that the new stitches are not discernible.

1902 R. P. Browne Pract. Wk. Dressmaking & Tailoring II. iii. 87 A cloth which is too thin to join by ‘fine drawing’, can be ‘rantered’ together.

Derivatives

ˈrantering n.

ΚΠ

1607 Tailors' Acct. Bk. 54 For the rantering of ȝour clok, xiij s.

1864 G. Roy Lect. & Stories v. 160 The young tailor must be equally diligent in becoming expert at seaming, stitching, and rantering.

1933 J. E. Liberty Pract. Tailoring iii. 24 (caption) Seaming and rantering. An alternative to stoting for use on loose materials (tweeds, etc.).

1950 Lima (Ohio) News 31 Oct. 11/1 In Scotland, they title it rantering..but in any country it's called thrifty to reinforce men's or children's socks before they are worn to double the wear and save endless mending.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	ranter
释义	rantern. Brit. /ˈrantə/, U.S. /ˈræn(t)ər/ Forms: 1600s– ranter, 1800s– ranthar (Manx English), 1800s– ranther (English regional (Yorkshire)). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rant v., -er suffix¹. Etymology: < rant v. + -er suffix¹. 1. A person who talks or declaims noisily, bombastically, or vehemently (in early use esp. in preaching). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > one who speaks > [noun] > in specific ways speakera1340 breatherc1384 boasterc1400 rattlerc1449 brawler1581 shredder1592 venter1611 speak-truth1614 ranter1649 bawler1656 yelper1673 mouther1746 spouter1759 oralist1867 mushmouth1868 loudmouth1870 megaphonist1906 1649 O. Cromwell Let. 14 Nov. (1904) I. 504 There went also, with this party, Sir Thomas Armstrong, Colonel Trevor, and most of their great ranters. a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 339 How empty these Self, but shallow conceited Ranters are,..They place all Gallantry and Worth in Valour. 1726 C. Ellison Most Pleasant Descr. Benwel Village 318 Each arch Wight Takes great Delight To act th'abusive Ranter. 1786 Gentleman's Mag. 56 i. 305 Some other ranters and rhapsodists. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock II. x. 259 A wild ranter in religious opinions. 1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars i. 48 Rome has found a place for the dreamiest mystic or the noisiest ranter. 1945 G. Millar Maquis vi. 128 He was a ranter, was Tom. He told us repeatedly..how fundamentally he desired to go out and kill Germans. 1995 M. Amis Information (1996) 173 The nineteenth-century American angel, the Messiah of the wild-goose chase in whose name the bearded ranter trudged from house to house. 2. Chiefly in plural. Also with capital initial. Now historical. a. (A name applied to) a member of a group of religious radicals of the early 1650s, who argued for complete reliance on the inspiration of God's spirit, rejecting religious authority and formal worship, denied the reality of sin and the physical existence of heaven and hell, and gained a reputation for ostentatiously promiscuous, drunken, or blasphemous behaviour. depreciative in early use. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > antinomianism > [noun] > ranting > person ranter1650 1650 J. Taylor Late Weary, Merry Voy. 12 That I may say of London, what a Town ist... There's roome for Ranters, and alas how apt ist To harbour the ungovern'd Annabaptist? 1652 R. Brome (title) The joviall crew, or the Devill turn'd Ranter: a comedie, containing a true discovery..of a sect (lately sprung up amongst us) called Ranters. 1667 L. Stuckley Gospel-glasse (1670) xxxii. 319 Seekers, Ranters, and Quakers, have took occasion to cry down the Office of the Ministry. 1722 B. Star tr. Mlle. de St. Phale vii. 192 Had they been born Ranters, or Papists, or Jews, they would not have changed their Religion. 1799 H. Adams Summary Hist. New-Eng. vii. 101 The general court of Connecticut, in October, 1656, passed an act, which prohibited the towns in their jurisdiction from entertaining any Quakers, Ranters, or other heretics. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) II. 217 The priests and magistrates were not more violent against him [sc. George Fox] than the Ranters. 1897 S. R. Gardiner Hist. Commonw. (1903) II. xviii. 91 Such a doctrine [of an inner light]..had led the Ranters into a belief that sin was no sin to those who, being spiritual, willed to do evil. 1971 K. Thomas Relig. & Decline of Magic vi. 170 The Ranters denied the immortality of the soul, the literalness of the Resurrection, the overriding authority of the Scriptures, and the physical existence of Heaven and Hell. 1994 Queen's Q. Fall 690 The charges of blasphemy brought against various Ranters in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. b. In the 19th cent. (somewhat depreciative): (a name applied to) a member of any of several Nonconformist groups, esp. = Primitive Methodist n. at primitive n. and adj. Compounds 2.Quot. 1823 connects this sense with rant v. 3. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Methodism > Methodist sects and groups > [noun] > primitive > person Primitive Methodist1791 ranter1821 primitive1855 Prim1949 1821 Examiner 8 Apr. 218/1 The new religious sect ‘Bryanites’, or ‘Ranters’, which lately arose in the Midland Counties, is gradually making a progress into others. 1823 H. Bourne Hist. Primitive Methodists 49 When these..meetings were closed, the praying people, in returning home, were accustomed to sing through the streets at Belper. This circumstance procured them the name of Ranters; and the name of Ranter, which first arose on this occasion [in 1814], afterwards spread very extensively. 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 143/1 The Primitive Methodists, who are sometimes known as Ranters, originated in Staffordshire. 1862 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. II. v. 174 Those having a too lively imagination..become Mormonites and Ranters. 1916 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 3 270 The Primitive Methodists, commonly known as ‘ranters’. 1980 E. P. Thompson Making of Eng. Working Class (ed. 3) xi. 426 As orthodox Wesleyanism throve, so also did breakaway groups of ‘Ranters’—the Welsh ‘Jumpers’ (cousins to the American ‘Shakers’), the Primitive Methodists, the ‘Tent Methodists’, [etc.]. 2003 Church Times 23 May 15/2 Primitive Methodists, the Ranters, who split from the Wesleyans, produced leaders for early trade unions in mining and agriculture. 3. a. A noisy, riotous, dissolute person; a rake. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [noun] > person unthriftc1330 riotor1389 rioterc1440 palliard1484 skyrgalliarda1529 rakehellc1560 ranger1560 rakeshame1598 dissolute1608 pavement-beater1611 rakell1622 ranter1652 huzza1660 whorehopper1664 profligate1679 rakehellonian1692 rake1693 buck1725 blood1749 gay blade1750 have-at-alla1761 rakehellyc1768 hell-rake?1774 randan1779 rip1781 roué1781 hell-raker1816 tiger1827 raver1960 dog1994 1652 Mercurius Politicus No. 123. 1939 His [sc. Charles Stuart's] Affairs are defunct, because the Ranters about him are very pensive and silent; which is not usual, when the world goes on their side. 1681 T. Jordan London's Joy 13 We Sing, Dance, and trip it, as Frolick as Ranters. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 486. ¶1 The Hazards of a Town full of Ranters and Debauchees. 1776 Blockheads iii. iii. 16 I have outstay'd my day of grace, and find I must follow these ranters a wild goose chase over land and sea. 1844 H. W. Beecher Seven Lect. to Young Men vii. 173 To..gaze at drunken ranters, or cry at the piteous virtue of harlots in distress. 1889 R. L. Stevenson Master of Ballantrae xi. 292 Some were reputed pirates, the most hawkers of rum; all ranters and drinkers. 1901 G. H. Perris Life & Teachings Leo Tolstoy (1904) Introd. 20 There is not a word of preaching from end to end; the Russians are men and brothers; the hero is neither a coxcomb nor a ranter. †b. Scottish. A person who sings or plays a musical instrument in a lively manner. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > other types of singer > [noun] > other singers knackerc1380 jubilist1471 sol-faer1609 serenader1677 comic singer1753 ranter1769 country singer1790 caroler1806 chansonnier1822 troller1824 cantabank1834 triller1873 lion comique1899 chantwell1909 red-hot mama1924 song stylist1931 singer-songwriter1949 playback singer1963 1769 D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Scots Songs i. 136 I'm a piper to my trade, My name is Rob the Ranter. 1778 Charms of Chearfulness 144 Now for it my ranter, one tune of your chanter, Shall beat the harp, hautboy or fiddle. 1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair i. x. 9 I see the Ranter with bagpipe on back. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 331 It was never your mother's custom, and it shall never be mine, to take up with ranters, and jugglers, and singing women. Derivatives ˈranter-like adv. and adj. ΚΠ 1658 J. Bunyan Sighs from Hell 250 Thou wilt Ranter-like turn the Grace of God into wantonness. 1695 G. Keith True Copy Paper given to Quakers 29 W. P. phraseth it, (more Ranter like, than a sober Christian). 1849 D. Rock Church our Fathers II. 393 Latimer..so ranter-like in logic and language. 1988 P. Linebaugh in G. Eley & W. Hunt Reviving Eng. Revol. 211 We see it in Newgate chapel during the sermons for the condemned when the malefactors sometimes set up a Ranter-like counter-theatre of laughter, profanity and song. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). ranterv. Brit. /ˈrantə/, U.S. /ˈræn(t)ər/ Forms: 1700s– ranter, 1800s– rander (English regional (Yorkshire)); Scottish pre-1700 raintter, pre-1700 rambter, pre-1700 rantre, pre-1700 rantter, pre-1700 1800s– ranter, pre-1700 1900s– rantar, 1800s– rander (northern). Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French rentraire. Etymology: < French rentraire to seam (1387 in Middle French), to darn (1611 in Cotgrave) < Middle French re- re- prefix + entraire to pull, to draw (c1160 in Old French), to seam (c1165) < classical Latin intrahere to drag along (see intracted adj.). Compare renter v. Now rare. 1. transitive. Chiefly Scottish. To darn, mend, sew; to stitch together. Also figurative.Sometimes: (Scottish) to reinforce the heels of (new stockings) with stitching. Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records this sense as still in use in Orkney, Caithness, and Lothian in 1967. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > sew > repair or mend draw1592 darnc1600 to draw up1603 ranter1607 fine-draw1665 clobber1851 plain-darn1880 1607 [see rantering n. at Derivatives]. 1626 in J. Imrie & J. G. Dunbar Accts. Masters of Wks. (1982) II. 192 To Thomas Johnstoune saidler for covering of four lang furmes.., to Androw Blaikie that helpit him and that mendit and ranterit uther thrie furmes..xviii s. c1631 Acct. Bk. J. Doune 18b Ane coit dowblet & breikis of gray claith wroicht with howpting and raintterd. 1676 in Fountainhall's Decisions in M. P. Brown Suppl. Dict. Decisions Court of Session (1826) III. 86 He bade the defender ranter the two ends of an inconsistency he was urging together. 1715 J. Browne & W. Oldisworth State Tracts I. 237 He was..Rantering the Seams of an Old Farmer's New Doublet. 1757 J. Dove Dissertation 3 I had so rantered the two latter [people] together, that to attempt to separate them, would be to tear them limb from limb. 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) (at cited word) Ranter,..to darn. 1916 John o'Groat Jrnl. 7 Apr. in Sc. National Dict. (1968) 7 351/2 Stockings were always ‘randered’ in those days. 1922 J. Wight Tantersome Tibbockie in J. D. McClure Doric v. 142 A wheen idder orra trock war rantered onen a skelf. 2. transitive. spec. To sew together (two edges of cloth) very neatly with fine stitching, so that the join is barely perceptible; = renter v. 1. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > sew > sew together > finely or invisibly fine-draw1665 renter1699 ranter?1796 ?1796 Taylor's Compl. Guide iv. xi. 158 A surplus both of the inside and outside must be left on the cloth in width, to make as much as will turn round the arm to be rantered or fine drawn underneath. 1808 in J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (at cited word) To Ranter,..to sew a seam across so nicely that it is not perceived. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) 273 Ranter, to sew up a rent in a garment, or to apply a patch over it, so neatly that the new stitches are not discernible. 1902 R. P. Browne Pract. Wk. Dressmaking & Tailoring II. iii. 87 A cloth which is too thin to join by ‘fine drawing’, can be ‘rantered’ together. Derivatives ˈrantering n. ΚΠ 1607 Tailors' Acct. Bk. 54 For the rantering of ȝour clok, xiij s. 1864 G. Roy Lect. & Stories v. 160 The young tailor must be equally diligent in becoming expert at seaming, stitching, and rantering. 1933 J. E. Liberty Pract. Tailoring iii. 24 (caption) Seaming and rantering. An alternative to stoting for use on loose materials (tweeds, etc.). 1950 Lima (Ohio) News 31 Oct. 11/1 In Scotland, they title it rantering..but in any country it's called thrifty to reinforce men's or children's socks before they are worn to double the wear and save endless mending. 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