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Waller3. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Waller3 [f. WALL sb.1 + -ER1.]

1   1.  A wall-tree.

2 1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, II. 87/1. Wall-Trees, called Wallers, are such as are planted at Wall sides, and are pinned up to the Wall.

3   † 2.  A ‘keeper of the walls.’ Hence Wallership. Obs.

4 1578.  in Househ. Ord. (1790), 264. Keeper of the Walles, alias wallership; fee 2. 5. 4.

5   3.  (See quots.)

6 1904.  Daily Chron., 15 April, 8/2. ‘Wallers’ … are men who find casual employment as law-writers, and have been facetiously christened ‘wallers,’ because they are generally to be found lounging against a wall in Cursitor-street waiting on an engagement. Ibid. (1908), 3 July, 6/7. ‘Waller,’ as applied to a man who does law writing…. They were called ‘wallers,’ as a term of contempt, by the regular writers.

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