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Win(n)er, Wynnar(e, -er, n. Also: vynnar, wenner. [ME and e.m.E. wynnere (1352), wynner (1393), winner (1556).] a. The victor in a battle or contest of any sort. b. One who acquires possessions, money, goods, etc. through effort, an earner. c. A harvester of crops, someone who works the land. Also in fig.context. d. A miner, a quarrier.a. 1456 Hay I 74/20.
[If he] has tynt the bataill, tharfore he had the wrang, and the wynnar the rycht 1456 Hay I 156/7.
Gif the gudis or landis that ilkane wynnis on othir is rychtwisly wonnyn and if rycht may remayne with the wynnaris 1494 Loutfut MS 114b.
Thir ar all batellis of honour to the wynnaris thocht sum be mair honorable & mair to pris than othiris is 1596 Dalr. I 156/16.
The verie Romanis selfes, victorious winneris 1621 Misc. Maitl. C. I 196.
George Lord Seytoun sall bring the silver bell that his horse wan … and the same bell to be run for the said day swa that the wynnar thereof may have the same againb. c1460 Consail Vys Man 277.
Desyr neuir wrang vynynge Fore it sal profet thé na-thinge, For wrang vyninge the vynnar to Dyd neuir gud na neuir sal do 1593 Aberd. B. Rec. II 85.
Knawin to the magistrattis and nichtbouris to be wynneris of thair leving be sum honest moyen craft and occupatiounc. 1515 Fife Sheriff Ct. 19.
The cornes … to remane … in the handis of the wynnar … quhil the decisioune of the pley 1550 Douglas of Morton 682.
[Further, both … are to pasture together on the ground lying between the Podene Burn and Quhitlawbek, viz.] without the severall dikis as the auld wynnaris of Podene, Meltounes, Stanrishill usit of before 1680 Foulis Acc. Bk. 47.
For eall out of Blackhall to the winners of hayfig. a1400 Leg. S. xxvii 860.
Lang tym trawalyt he Of Goddis corne wynnare to bed. 1515 Acta Conc. Publ. Aff. 38.
That na personis by ony part of the said gold and matell at the wynnaris of the samyn 1528 Ayrsh. Coll. 2 Ser. XI 99.
To the collewenner for fyfte laids of collis, 18 s. 8 d. 1562 Treas. Acc. XI 181.
For thair expensis remanand in Edinburght in uptaking of ane compt of the lauboraris wynnaris of the gold of the mynde 1625 Peebles B. Rec. I 413.
For ane to go to Dudingstowne for the winer of sclaittis viij s.