Talk:motour
Latest comment: 7 years ago by Equinox in topic Meaning?
Meaning?[edit]
I am not sure this is attestable with the meanings one would expect based on motor. All I found in Google Books was a mention, in Marc Loewenthal's Bless the Buccaneer with Barbecued Blood (page 103), which talks about the original Middle-English borrowing and says: "There was only one thing that motour referred to, and that was the big motour in the sky, the prime mover, God. With time, it was applied to any force that produced mechanical motion ..." Equinox ◑ 20:53, 13 November 2016 (UTC)