storer
(ˈstɔərə(r))
Also 6 stoarer, storyar, Sc. storour(e, -are, storrour, stourour.
[f. store v. and n. + -er1.]
1. One who, or a thing which, stores or keeps in store.
| 1513 Douglas æneis vii. ix. 23 Tirrheus thair fader was fee maister, and gyde Of studis, flokis, bowis; and heyrdis wyde, As storoure to the king, did kep and ȝime. Ibid. xii. Prol. 263 Welcum stourour of alkynd bestiall. 1540 Palsgr. Acolastus ii. i. I iij, The storer of some well moneyed mayster .i. the keper or ouerseer of the prouision for householde. 1571 Golding Calvin on Ps. lxix. 10 Y⊇ trew rule of Godlynesse..whereof y⊇ church is y⊇ faithful storer. 1640 T. Brugis Marrow of Physicke i. 55 Memory is the sure storer of all things, as in a magazine. 1864 E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene 89 Sulphurous Acid Gas.—The bleachers in cotton and worsted manufactories, and storers of woollen articles, are most exposed to this gas. |
b. One who hoards, lays by, or makes provision, for (a need).
| 1599 Hayward 1st Pt. Life Hen. IV, 59 The King in peace no stoarer for war. 1622 Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. i. 26 My Mother was a storer, a thrifty Wench. 1907 Athenæum 14 Sept. 307/1 The coal-tit is undoubtedly a storer for the future. |
† c. ? A partner or shareholder in a joint-stock undertaking. Obs.
| 1623 in Trans. New Shaks. Soc. (1885) 499 The said Thomas Greene..was a fellow Actor or player of and in the Companie..of the late queenes Ma{supt}{supi}⊇ Queene Anne,..and a full adventurer, storer and sharer of in and amongst them. |
d. One who stocks or peoples.
| 1690 C. Nesse Hist. & Myst. O. & N. Test. I. 125 To him who was the first storer of the world [sc. Adam]. |
2. Something kept to produce a store or stock. a. = standel 1. ? Obs.
| 1543 [see standel 1]. 1572 B.N.C. Munim. 24. 27, Storyars. 1670 J. Smith Eng. Improv. Reviv'd 100 About 2 years after the planting one of the best plants is to be reserved as a Standil or Storer. 1721 Mortimer Husb. II. 109, I divided my Trees into three sorts, viz. first Storers, which I reckoned all to be that were under 12 Inches Circumference; secondly, Saplings, which I called all under 24 Inches Circumference; and what was two Foot Circumference..I reckoned Timber⁓trees. 1792 Jrnls. Ho. Comm. 13 Feb. 234/1 Storers, or Saplings. |
† b. A number of animals kept for breeding. Obs.
| 1569 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 330 They have put fyve swannes upon the water to be storer for the Cytye. |