fewter

English

Alternative forms

• feuter

Etymology

From Middle English feuter, fewtre, from Old French feutre, from Medieval Latin filtrum, of Germanic origin. Doublet of filter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːtə/

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Noun

fewter (plural fewters)

1. A support or holder for a spear, attached to a saddle or breastplate.
   • 1994, Jeanette Winterson, Art & Lies:

     From heaven the spear-light vertical in its fewter.

Verb

fewter (third-person singular simple present fewters, present participle fewtering, simple past and past participle fewtered)

1. (transitive) To rest (a spear) in its fewter.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     His speare he feutred, and at him it bore, / But with no better fortune than the rest afore.

Middle English

Noun

fewter

1. Alternative form of feuter