▪ I. feer, n.1 Only ME. and Sc.
(fiːr)
Forms: 3 feor, 8– Sc. fiar, fier, feer.
[ME. feor a. OF. feor, feur, fuer fixed price, standard: L. forum (in class. L. market).]
† 1. A price. Obs.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 398 Sete feor o ðine luue. a 1240 Wohunge in Cott. Hom. 287 Ȝif þat i mi luue bede for to selle and setle feor þer upon swa hehe swa ich eauer wile. c 1320 Cast. Love 1091 Ȝif þou wilt him bugge to his feore. |
2. Sc. See quot. and fiars.
| 18.. Jamieson, Fier, Feer, a standard of any kind. Yarn is said to be spun by, i.e. beyond, the fier, when it is drawn smaller than the proper thickness. |
▪ II. † ˈfeer, n.2 Obs. rare.
See also fiar.
[f. fee v. + -er1.]
One who fees or gives a fee to another.
| 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 34 They are..in fee with the Drapers, that if a man come to them to desire them to helpe them to buy a piece of cloth..they will straightway conduct them to their feer. |
▪ III. feer, n.3 Mining.
(ˈfɪə(r))
[f. fee v.2 + -er1.]
One who fees or loads up the coal.
| 1883 Gresley Gloss. Coal Mining, Feer. |
▪ IV. † feer, fere, a. Obs. rare.
[a. OF. fer, fier (mod.Fr. fier.) = Pr. fer, It. and Sp. fiero:—L. fer-us: see fierce.]
Bold, fierce; proud.
| c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints, Eufemia 141 Þe Juge fel & fere. ― Tecla 217 Syne come a lyone fel & fere. c 1380 Sir Ferumb. 329 A knyȝt ful feer. Ibid. 414 Roland ys..so coraious & so fere. c 1450 Guy Warw. (C.) 1428 He was a bolde man and a fere. |
▪ V. feer, v.
(fiːr, fɪə(r))
Forms: 5 fere, 8–9 feer, 9 Sc. feir.
[Perh. (as suggested by Jamieson) repr. OE. fyrian to make a furrow (:—*furhjan), f. furh furrow n.; for the phonology cf. beir, beere as variants of birr n.]
‘To mark off the breadth of every ridge (of land) for ploughing, by drawing a furrow on each side of the space allotted for it’ (Jam.).
| c 1400 York Manual (Surtees) 224* Yee shale praye for all lande tilland and lee ferand. 1862 J. Wilson Farming vi. 206 This operation—called in Scotland feiring the land—is usually entrusted to the most skilful ploughman on each farm. 1881 Leicestersh. Gloss. s.v., To feer land, is to set it out as it is intended to be ploughed. |
▪ VI. feer(e
obs. form of fear.
▪ VII. feer(e
var. of fere n., Obs. companion.