▪ I. tarrier1 arch.
(ˈtærɪə(r))
Also 4 tariere, 4–6 tarier, 5 teryar, -iar, 6 tar(r)yer, -iar.
[f. tarry v. + -er1.]
1. One who tarries or delays; a lingerer, procrastinator; one who stays or remains.
| 1382 Wyclif Jer. Prol., God is redi to ȝyue good, to punshen a tariere. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 489/2 Teryar, or longe lytare (P. teriar or longe bidar). 1530 Palsgr. 317/2 Longe taryer. 1531 Elyot Gov. i. xxiv, Called of them Fabius cunctator, that is to saye the tariar or delayer. 1577 J. Northbrooke Dicing (1843) 95 Saint Paule admonisheth women..to be byders and tariers at home. 1581 J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 496 There be behind yet many tarryers, I will not say Traytors to the Common weale. 1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales (Chaucer Soc.) 29 This Chanterer was a notable Tarrier. 1845 Browning Glove 91 Sound the trumpet, no true knight's a tarrier! |
† 2. One who (or that which) delays some one; a hinderer, obstructor; an obstruction. Obs.
| 1614 B. Jonson Barth. Fair i. v, Why doe you stop, am I your Tarriars? 1622 J. Rawlins Fam. Recovery Ship of Bristol E j b, To catch the soules of mortall men, and entangle frailty in the tarriers of horrible abuses, and imposturing deceit. |
▪ II. tarrier2
(ˈtærɪə(r))
Forms: 5 tarrer(e, 6 tarryour, 7–8 terrier, 9 tarrier.
[In 15th c. tarrer(e, a. OF. tarere (c 1200 in Godef.), mod.F. tarière:—late L. taratrum (Isidore xix. xix. 15, ‘taratrum quasi teratrum’): cf. Gr. τέρετρον borer, gimlet.]
A boring instrument, an auger; now, an instrument for extracting a bung from a barrel.
| c 1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 65 Looke þow haue tarrers two a more & lasse for wyne. Ibid. 71 So when þow settyst a pipe abroche... With tarrere or gymlet perce ye vpward þe pipe ashore. 1513 Bk. Keruynge in Babees Bk. (1868) 266 Than loke ye haue two tarryours, a more & a lesse. 1611 Cotgr., Terriere, a Terrier, or Augar. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Terrier..a sort of Awger to bore with. 1904 Daily Chron. 19 Feb. 3/2 A London cellarman asks for his ‘tarrier’ to take out a bung from the barrel. |
▪ III. † tarrier3, tarriour Obs.
[f. *tarry vb. in tarrying-iron + -er1, -our.]
A pair of tiring-irons.
| 1601 Deacon & Walker Answ. to Darel To Rdr. 4 The very frame itselfe..resembleth fitlie a paire of tarriours, or tyring yrons. |
▪ IV. tarrier
obs. or vulgar form of terrier n.2 (dog).