Crossword clues for hosier
hosier
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hosier \Ho"sier\, n. One who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., hosyere "hose-maker" (attested as a surname from late 12c.), from hose (n.) + -ier, French-influenced agent noun suffix.
Wiktionary
n. One who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose.
WordNet
n. a tradesman who sells hosiery and (in England) knitwear
Wikipedia
Hosier is an occupational surname. It originates from either the Old English word "hosa", meaning a maker or seller of legwear, or from the French word "heuse", later " hosier", meaning a maker of footwear. The modern surname appears to derive from the English meaning but uses the French spelling. Notable people with the surname include:
- Edward Hosier (died 1571), English politician
- Francis Hosier (1673–1727), British Royal Navy officer
- " Black Harry" Hosier (–1806), a black Methodist preacher during the Second Great Awakening
- Gerald D. Hosier, American lawyer
- John Hosier (1928–2000), English musician
- Tom Hosier (born 1942), American football coach
Usage examples of "hosier".
These being considered, the house ordered the lords of the admiralty to produce the other memorials of the same kind which they had received, that they might be laid before the congress at Soissons: then they addressed his majesty for copies of all the letters and instructions which had been sent to admiral Hosier, and those who succeeded him in the command of the West-India squadron.
We were enjoying our dessert when the hosier was announced, accompanied by another woman and a milliner who could speak French.
After them march the guilds and trades and trainbands with flying colours: coopers, bird fanciers, millwrights, newspaper canvassers, law scriveners, masseurs, vintners, trussmakers, chimneysweeps, lard refiners, tabinet and poplin weavers, farriers, Italian warehousemen, church decorators, bootjack manufacturers, undertakers, silk mercers, lapidaries, salesmasters, corkcutters, assessors of fire losses, dyers and cleaners, export bottlers, fellmongers, ticketwriters, heraldic seal engravers, horse repository hands, bullion brokers, cricket and archery outfitters, riddlemakers, egg and potato factors, hosiers and glovers, plumbing contractors.
I was going about at random, looking for a hosier, yet unwilling to enquire where I could find one.
We were enjoying our dessert when the hosier was announced, accompanied by another woman and a milliner who could speak French.
Now, as luck would have it, the hosier of Ghent, with whom the people already sympathized so strongly, and on whom all eyes were fixed, took his seat in the first row in the gallery, just above the mendicant.
This hosier, who had just held Monsieur the Cardinal at defiance, was their equal—a soothing reflection to poor devils accustomed to pay obedience and respect to the servants of the very sergeants of the bailiff of the Abbot of Sainte-Geneviève, the train-bearer of the Cardinal.