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Fretter1. 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. 1901, rev. 2022. Fretter1 [f. FRET v.1 + -ER1.] One who or that which frets.

1   1.  † a. A devourer (obs.). b. That which gnaws, eats away, or corrodes. Obs. exc. in vine-fetter: see quot. 1608.

2 1523.  Fitzherb., Husb., § 43. Terre of hym selfe is to kene, and is a fretter, and no healer, without it be medled with some of these [oil, butter, etc.].

3 1568–9.  Act 11 Eliz., in Bolton, Stat. Irel. (1621), 298. The fretter of our lives and substance.

4 1607.  Topsell, Serpents, 666. Vine-fretters, which are a kind of Caterpillers, or little hairy wormes with many feet, that eat vines when they begin to shoot.

5 1610.  Markham, Masterp., II. cxxx. 432. Other Farriers vse the powder of Risagallo, or Risagre, but it is a great deale too strong a fretter.

6 1611.  Cotgr., Tavelliere, the little worme called a Wood-fretter.

7 1771.  Misc., in Ann. Reg., 172/2. Reaumur has proved that vine fretters do not want an union of sexes for the multiplication of their kind.

8 1895.  Dublin Rev., CXVII. Oct., 444. He considered the generation of vine fretters from a new point of view.

9   2.  a. One who or something which irritates or chafes. b. One who gives way to fretting or ill-temper.

10   a.  1503.  Hawes, The Example of Virtue, viii. (Arb.), 38.        That I may come to ayde hym beter So that fraylte to hym be no freter.

11 a. 1625.  Beaum. & Fl., Bloody Bro., II. ii. Give me some drink, this fire’s a plaguy fretter.

12 1790.  Wolcott (P. Pindar), Advice to Fut. Laureat, Wks. 1812, II. 341.        Thou plague of Post-office, the teaser, fretter, Informing clerks the way to seal a letter.

13   b.  1649.  Fuller, Just Man’s Fun., 19. The first are the Fretters.

14 a. 1732.  T. Boston, Serm. (1850), 120. This doctrine reproves murmurers and fretters, under cross events of providence.

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