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Pewterer   Listen
noun
Pewterer  n.  One whose occupation is to make utensils of pewter; a pewtersmith.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Pewterer" Quotes from Famous Books



... leisure, which he devoted to study in heraldry and Old English. With these he became familiar, and then he began those impostures that were the bane of his short remnant of life. The first of these had for its victim, one Burgum, a pewterer, whose ignorance and vanity exposed him to the lad's designs to obtain money from him by flattery. Like many others in such conditions, the pewterer had eager desire to be thought a descendant of ancestry formerly of high ...
— Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 of 8 • Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

... have hang'd a pewterer's 'prentice once upon a Shrove Tuesday's riot, for being of that trade, when ...
— Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher • S. T. Coleridge



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