▪ I. suiter, shooter local.
(ˈsjuːtə(r), ˈʃuːtə(r))
Forms: 6 shewter, 7, 9 shooter, 9 suiter, -or.
[f. suit v. + -er1. Cf. follower 5 a (voller), and suity-board s.v. suity a. 3; suitel is a variant in Northamptonshire (Baker N'hampton Gloss.).]
a. A round board placed between two cheeses in the press. b. A square board in a cider-press placed on the top of the pile of must or ‘cheese’. More fully, suiter-board.
| 1586 Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 29 Fiyffe chef⁓fates [i.e. cheese-vats]..and one shewter vjs viij{supd}. 1625 in Miss Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. s.v., Eleven chefats, five shooters. 1833 Loudon Encycl. Archit. §1316 [In a cider-press] A square board, termed a shooter. 1870 in Miss Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. s.v. Follower, Cheese-vats, followers, and suitors. 1886 Cheshire Gloss., Shooter boards or suiter boards. |
▪ II. suiter
obs. or dial. f. suitor.