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portioner

[ pawr-shuh-ner, pohr- ]

noun

  1. a person who receives or holds a portion, or who divides something into portions.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of portioner1

First recorded in 1545–55; portion + -er 1
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Example Sentences

Adam Weir, Portioner in Laichmont, is a name which may be found figuring in the Cloud of Witnesses, or in that very silly book, Mr Simpson's Traditions of the Covenanters.

Your servant, sir," said the Linton portioner; "I did not think you had been acquainted here.

Here lyes James Ramsay, portioner of Melrose, who died July 15th, 1761.

This was his brother-in-law, and one of his elders, Mr. Robert Johnston, married to his sister Violet, a merchant and portioner in Biggar, a remarkable man, of whom it is difficult to say to strangers what is true, without being accused of exaggeration.

"You are at your studies?" said Mr. Spencer to him, going up to his side with a little deference for the General, and a little familiarity for the son of a plain Portioner of Glen Shira who was to be seen any day coming down the glen in his cart, with a mangy sporran flapping rather emptily in front of his kilt.

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