glover1
(ˈglʌvə(r))
Also 5 glovare, -ere, glower(e, gloyfer, glufer, 6 glovar.
[f. glove n. + -er1.]
One who makes or sells gloves.
| c 1400 Destr. Troy v. 1584 Goldsmythes, Glouers, Girdillers noble. 1464 Ripon Ch. Acts, Joh. Bryggede Skelgatt, glower. 1558 W. Forrest Grisylde ii. 81 After this Prouerbe..The Glouer (craftelye) brought this reason ynne. 1598 Shakes. Merry W. i. iv. 21 Do's he not weare a great round Beard, like a Glouers pairing-knife? 1600 Chester Pl. Banes 124 You, of glovers the wholl occupation. 1720 Strype Stow's Surv. (1754) II. v. xv. 323/1 The Company of Glovers were incorporated the 10{supt}{suph} day of September 1639. 1786 H. Watson in Med. Commun. II. 110 With a glover's needle and thread. 1864 A. M{supc}Kay Hist. Kilmarnock 111 The pouch represented the tailors; the breeches, the glovers. |
† b. wet glover: a maker of leather gloves.
| 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 86/2 The Wett-Glover. 1724 Lond. Gaz. No. 6249/7 Humphry Topping..Wet Glover. |
c. Comb., as glover's shreds, shreds of glove-leather used to make size; glover's stitch, (a) the stitch used in sewing the seams of gloves; (b) (see quot. 1721); glover's suture, a suture made with the glover's stitch.
| 1542 MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., Payd for halfe a busshell of glovers schredis jd ob. 1672 Wiseman Treat. Wounds 15 In great fluxes of bloud the Glovers stitch is best. 1703 T. S. Art's Improv. I. 44 Take Vermilion and grind it very fine with size, made of Glovers-shreds. 1721 Bailey, Glovers stitch (in Surgery), is when the Lips of a Wound are sewed upwards, after the manner of Glovers. 1767 Gooch Treat. Wounds I. 158 The glover's, spiral, or continued suture, is now only used in wounds of the intestines or stomach. 1886 Treves' Man. Surg. III. 167 An incised wound must be stitched up with the Glover's or spiral suture. |