swanner
(ˈswɒnə(r))
Also 6 swaner.
[Partly reduced form of swannerd, swanherd, partly a. MDu. swanier swan-warden, with assimilation to ns. in -er1.]
= swanherd.
| 1524 in Archaeologia (1812) XVI. 155 The King's Swannerd, or his Deputy, shall give warning unto the rest of the Swanners, when that he..will go a rowing,..for to go a merkinge..of any other swans. 1555–6 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 260 Payed to swanners for there fee ijs. vjd. 1594–5 in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) III. 596 [Five shillings] to a Swaner for bringing a swane mark. 1842 Gentl. Mag. Jan. 45/2 The swan with two nicks, the way in which the swanner still marks his birds. |