▪ I. ˈscalder, n.1
[f. scald v. + -er1.]
One who scalds poultry, vessels, etc.
| 1536 in Househ. Ord. (1790) 237 The said..Clerke shall see that the said Poultry shall be dayly put into the Scalder's hands. 1612 MSS. Dk. Rutland (1905) IV. 488 Paid to a scallder from London, 16 dayes at v.s. the day. a 1625 Fletcher & Massinger Elder Brother ii. iii. (1637) D 3 b, Ralph [the cook] there with his kitchin boyes and scalders. |
▪ II. † ˈscalder, n.2
[ad. mod.L. scalder (Olaus Wormius 1633), f. ON. skáld skald.]
= skald.
| 1765 Blair in Macpherson Ossian (1785) II. 290 note, An extract, which Dr. Hicks has given from the work of one of the Danish Scalders. Ibid. 291 This Lodbrog was a king of Denmark,..and at the same time an eminent Scalder or poet. 1774 Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. Diss. i. e 4 b, In the place of their old scalders a new rank of poets arose, called Gleemen or Harpers. |
▪ III. scalder, v. north. dial.
(ˈskɒldə(r))
[? f. scald v. + -er5.]
trans. To scald, scorch. Hence ˈscaldered ppl. a. (see quot. 1796).
| 1600 Fairfax Tasso xviii. lxxxv. 332 The hardie Duke..comforts those that from the scaldred hides, With water stroue th'approaching flames to chace. 1796 Marshall Rur. Econ. Yorks. (ed. 2) II. 341 Scaldered, chafed, blistered, or partially excoriated, whether by friction, heat, or corrosion... Scalderings, the under-burnt cores of stone lime: the surfaces of which peeling off, in scales or shells. 1804 R. Anderson Cumbld. Ball. 51, I..scawder'd my fit. 1876 Whitby Gloss., Scalder'd, skin-chafed, leprous. |