pewterer

[ pyoo-ter-er ]

noun

1. a maker of pewter utensils or containers.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pewterer¹

1300–50; Middle English peuterer < Middle French peutrier. See pewter, -er ²

Example Sentences

Thence to Tom's about business, and so to the pewterer's, to buy a poore's-box to put my forfeits in, upon breach of my late vows.

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The matchless spoon bears the sole surviving "touch" or mark of an American pewterer of the seventeenth century.

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The mark on the handle is the sole surviving one of an American pewterer of the seventeenth century.

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On their father's death the eldest succeeded to the property, and the younger, Henry, carried on the trade of pewterer in Helston.

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How little had he imagined that the Walpole's soul was not, by five shillings, as large as the Bristol pewterer's!

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