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Definition of Blencher
1. n. One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher.
Definition of Blencher
1. Noun. (obsolete) One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer during a hunt. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) One who flinches or shrinks back. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blencher
1. one that blenches [n -S] - See also: blenches
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blencher
Literary usage of Blencher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, William Morris (1887)
"... for indeed no dastard was I, And no blencher from the battle—all now has
departed and gone, And yet when ye look on the straw ye may deem of the harvest ..."
2. Euripides by Euripides (1912)
"POLYNEICES Yea—and know how shrinks from death that craven curse, prosperity !
ETEOCLES Yet against a battle-blencher thou must lead yon huge ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"The form blencher also occurs, apparently connecting our first meaning with
bleach, to start or fly off. Sec also Blink». BLANCH-FARM. ..."
4. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"See blencher. blank, the white spot in the centre of a target; now, bull's eye.
Hamlet, iv. 1. 42 ; at twelve-score blank, at a range of twelve score yards, ..."
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