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Definition of Sorner
1. n. One who obtrudes himself on another for bed and board.
Definition of Sorner
1. Noun. (Scotland) One who obtrudes himself on another for bed and board. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sorner
1. one that sorns [n -S] - See also: sorns
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sorner
Literary usage of Sorner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Days of James IIIJ. 1488-1513: Extracts from the Royal Letters, Polydore by George Gregory Smith (1890)
"It is proclaimed that whoever brings a thief or a sorner* or a man at the King's
horn to the sheriff, or slays an old wolf and brings his head to the ..."
2. The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland by Scotland Privy Council (1901)
"... every chief sorner and broken man should be accounted the man and ^Т1!'1? ...
slaughters on both sides; and " he is become ane opin reaver, sorner and ..."
3. The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland by Scotland Privy Council (1905)
"... and sorner sail be esteemed the man and servant of him of whome he hes land
in tillage or pasturage or whome ..."
4. Desultory Notes on Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary by James B. Montogomerie- Fleming (1899)
"A sorner is a degree worse, one who habitually fastens himself upon a friend.
Neither the one nor the other, however, is a thief. There are a good many very ..."
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