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Definition of Aunters
1. aunter [n] - See also: aunter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aunters
Literary usage of Aunters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"See ames-ace. aunt, a cant term for a bawd or procuress. Middleton, A Trick to
Catch, ii. 1 (first speech); Michaelmas Term, ii. 3 (Thomasine). aunters: in ..."
2. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1886)
"Ray mentions it as a Northern provincialism, used in the first of these senses ;
as, " he is troubled with aunters." Tho this kynge hadde go aboute in such ..."
3. Old Ballads: Historical and Narrative, with Some of Modern Date by Thomas Evans (1810)
"J She was more than other three, The grisliest beast that ever might be, Her head
was great and grey : * aunters, ie adventures. It is proper to inform the ..."
4. Utopia by Thomas More, Joseph Rawson Lumby (1908)
"13. aunters = aventures, adventures. So that in aunters = per- adventure, by chance.
17. somc piere of Englande. ..."
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