† styern.
Obsolete.
One who ascends or mounts; in quots. a rider (tr. Latin ascensor).
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a1340 R. Rolle Cant. Moses (Exod. xv) 1 in Psalter 503 The hors and the steghere he kast down in the see.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxi. 9 Lo! this cam, a man steȝere [a1425 stiere] of the carte of horse men.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xlix. 17 An horned eddre..biting the cleen of an hors, that the steyer [a1425 L.V. stiere] vp of hym falle bacward.
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