Crossword clues for poulterer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Poulterer \Poul"ter*er\, n. One who deals in poultry.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"dealer in poultry," 1630s, a redundancy, but it has largely ousted original poulter (mid-13c., pulter), from Anglo-French poleter, pulleter, Old French pouletier "poulterer," from pouletrie (see poultry). With agent suffix -er (1). Poetic poulter's measure (1570s), according to Miller Williams, is "So called because with its thirteen feet it suggests the poulter's old practice of giving an extra egg with the second dozen." ["Patterns of Poetry," Louisiana State University, 1986].
Wiktionary
n. A dealer in poultry.
WordNet
n. a dealer in poultry and poultry products [syn: poultryman]
Usage examples of "poulterer".
Bagshaw had received from the poulterer a positive assurance that he would raise heaven and earth to supply her with pigeons on the 23d of the ensuing August!
And indeed it was by great accident that he himself had passed through that field, in order to lay wires for hares, with which he was to supply a poulterer at Bath the next morning.
We had stopped at a combination butcher, poulterer, and fishmonger on our way back to Dornoch.
The poulterer stepped to the edge of the curb and apostrophised the universe generally.
I was just off Doxy Street by now, and close to Ashington, and walking beside a bow-fronted row of poulterers and cheese merchants.