fewterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English feuter, fewtre, from Old French feutre, from Medieval Latin filtrum, of Germanic origin. Doublet of filter.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːtə/

名詞

fewter (複数形 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 (三人称単数 現在形 fewters, 現在分詞 fewtering, 過去形および過去分詞形 fewtered)

1. (transitive) To rest (a spear) in its fewter.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 4, canto 4:

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