fewterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 feuter, fewtre, from Old French feutre, from Medieval Latin filtrum, of Germanic origin. Doublet of filter.

発音

• IPA: /ˈfjuːtə/

名詞

fewter (plural fewters)

1. A support or holder for a spear, attached to a saddle or breastplate.
   • 1994, Jeanette Winterson, Art & Lies:

     From heaven the spear-light vertical in its fewter.

動詞

fewter (third-person singular simple present fewters, present participle fewtering, simple past and past participle fewtered)

1. (transitive) To rest (a spear) in its fewter.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     His speare he feutred, and at him it bore, / But with no better fortune than the rest afore.

   • 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter 7, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):

     Without further words, the two gentlemen retreated to the opposite ends of the clearing, fewtered their spears, and prepared to hurtle together in the preliminary charge.