▪ I. † boucher Obs.
Also bowchyer, bowger.
[Boucher appears to be a corruption of bowger, and this a deriv. of bowge, bouge ‘bag, wallet,’ perh. in sense of ‘purse’; but cf. bowser1.]
A treasurer, cashier, bursar.
| c 1450 Gregory's Chron. 139 At the same tabylle the bowgerys of the chauncery. 1494 Fabyan vii. 586 At y⊇ same table sat the bowchyers of the Chauncery. 1583 Stanyhurst æneis i. 29 Pigmalions riches..that pinchepeny boucher. |
▪ II. boucher
obs. form of butcher.