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Pewderar, -er, n. Also: peuder-, pewdar-, pewdr-, peudr-; pulderar, -air; pouder-, powder-, powdarrar, -er; pud-, pudderare; pudrer; podderar. [Pewder n.¹ Cf. Pewterar n., Pewtherar n.] One who works in pewter, also in lead and tin; a pewterer.(a) 1547 Treas. Acc. IX. 78.
To Archebald Wilsoun pewdrar for melting and casting of certane auld weschell 1552 Dundee B. Ct. II. fol. 174 b (26 July).
Jhone Gray pewderar grantit the bying of ane siluir cors 1556–7 Edinb. Old Acc. I. 204.
Pewderar 1558 Edinb. B. Rec. in Mill Mediæv. Plays 220.
Pewdrer 1558 Ayr Chart. 107. 1561 Glasgow Chart. I. ii. 127.
Pewderar 1572 Prot. Bk. A. Millar 11 b.
Peuderar 1576 Reg. Privy C. II. 533.
Pewderare c 1580 Edinb. Hammermen 259. 1580–90 Glasg. Univ. Mun. I. 170.
Pewdarar 1587 Dundee B. Laws 476.
The peuderer [is to make] stouppis plettis and trunscheris 1598 Stirling B. Rec. I. 89.
Peudrar 1600 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 263.
Anent the tyn veschellis maid be the peudereris of this burgh 1614 Ib. VI. 123.
Thomas Weir and James Sibbett pewdereris to cast and lay the gutter of the ruffe of the hie kirk 1614 Conv. Burghs II. 456.
The gritt hurt … sustenit … thruch the insufficiencie of the tyne veshell maid be the peuderers 1633 E. Loth. Antiq. Soc. II. 103.
The said craft or airt of hammermen consisting in blacksmythes goldsmythes … pewdereris locksmythes pottares [etc.] 1640 Dumfries Treas. Acc. 10 b.
To the pewderer and potter for mending of the kirk 1641 Acts V. (1817) 507/1.
That the pewderer or funder of tin sall put the mark of the thrissell … vpon euerie peice of work 1657 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 362.(b) 1547 Treas. Acc. IX. 126.
To ane pulderar for casting and melting of certane pulder veschell 1592–3 Reg. Privy C. V. 578.
Pulderair(c) 1554–5 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 360.
Coft fra Johne Weir powderar … xvij^li. leid 1563 Edinb. B. Deeds 90 b.
Powdarrar 1563–4 Edinb. Old Acc. II. 196.
Causit Johnne Weir pouderar to wesy and mend the haill falthis and ryftis in the leid gutters of the kirk 1661 Greyfriars Interments 88.
Powderer(d) 1557 Justiciary Ct. Bk. MS. (Reg. H.) 10 April.
Thomas Andersoune puderare delatit of … counterfetting of our souerane ladeis cunȝie of v s. pecis 1558 Edinb. Old Acc. I. 271.
To Johnne Weir puderar for making of pypis to the out passage of the wyne 1561–2 Ib. II. 160.
To Johnne Weir pudereris hous 1574–5 Haddington Treas. Acc. 20.
To the pudderare for correcting of ane of the trone stanis 1610 Bk. Old Edinb. C. XIV. 42.
Pudrer(e) 1574–5 Haddington Treas. Acc. 2.
To Jhone the podderar for kasting of the wychtis

b. attrib. 1567 Acts III. 43/1.
Craftismen of the pewderar craft … quhilkis makis and sellis corrupt mettale [etc.] 1634 Edinb. Test. LVI. 302.
The quheill perteaning to the pewderer craft — 1638 Edinb. Test. LVIII. 331 b.
The pewderer irone work lomes — 1645 Edinb. Test. XLI. 184 b.
The defuncts woorkloomes belonging to the pewderer trad