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Definition of Fewters
1. fewter [v] - See also: fewter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fewters
Literary usage of Fewters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Survey of London by John Stow (1908)
"29. so called of fewters (or idle people). Stow is no doubt correct. ...
The suggestion that the name is due to fewters or fetters (the rests for a spear) ..."
2. An Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce, from by Adam Anderson (1801)
"... of the city of London remained unbuilt within about about one hundred and
fifty years paft ; particularly, all the ground between Shoe Lane and fewters ..."
3. An Introduction to English Antiquities: Intended as a Companion to the by James Eccleston (1847)
"Even some parts within the bars of the city remained unbuilt upon till the time
of Charles I., as all the ground between Shoe Lane and Fetter or fewters' ..."
4. An Old Shropshire Oak by John Wood Warter (1889)
"Happily, as regarded Frederika, fortune favoured him at once, though at the first
commencement of his flight he had to encounter many fewters or idlers, ..."
5. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"See Dodsley, i. 92. ¡ares is puzzled with this word, although it i not unusual.
" fewters of his face," Ro- »eos and Juliet, p. 57. k'ER. (1) A perplexity. ..."
6. Walks in London by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1883)
"... or fewters), which opens now upon the left, Lords Eldon and Stowell were upset
in their sedan chair in a street row.' The celebrated ' Praise God Bare- ..."
7. London, Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions by Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Peter Cunningham (1891)
"... which stretcheth south into Fleet Street, by the east end of St. Dunstan's church,
and is so called of fewters (or idle people) lying there, ..."
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