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Quotation dates: 1456-1597
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Forgear(e, n. Also: forgyar, forgeour, forger. [ME. forger, -eer, -ere (c 1380), f. Forge,v.1]
1. A worker in metal; a maker of coins. 1456 Hay II. 151/14.
He … alluterly sett his hert and his study to be a forgeare amang hamber men 1506 Treasurer's Accounts III. 187.
To the forgerris of the monee c1515 Asloan MS I. 324/28.
Vlcane, smyth of Iubiter, forgeour of fyre and thundere 1513 Doug. ii. v. 26.
The engyne forgyar … Epeus 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 10/32.
Ther duelt on that hil smythis, & forgearis of yrn ande steil 1567 Reg. Privy C. I. 556.
All meltaris, forgearis. and prentaris within the said cunyehous 1597 Lanark Rec. B. 112.
Anent this mater of the adulterat money … [the] forgearis or divisaris thairof
2. A deviser or inventor (of something). 1562-3 Winȝet II. 5/31.
The doingis … of al forgearis, and manteaneris, of schisme and errour 1581 Hamilton Cath. Tr. 46 b.
Let thir forgearis of neu expositionis … heir S. Augustin
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