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Webster 1913 Edition


Souter

Sou′ter

,
Noun.
[AS.
s[GREEK]t[GREEK]re
, fr. It.
sutor
, fr.
suere
to sew.]
A shoemaker; a cobbler.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
There is no work better than another to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a
souter
, or an apostle, – all is one.
Tyndale.

Webster 1828 Edition


Souter

SOUTER

,
Noun.
[L. sutor.] A shoemaker; a cobler. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024


souter

souter

English

Noun

souter (plural souters)

  1. (Scotland, Northern England) A shoemaker or cobbler.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Tyndale to this entry?)
    • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 31:
      He was a shoemaker, the creature, and called himself the Sutor, an old-fashioned name that folk laughed at.

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