Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A maker of bits, spurs, and metal mountings for bridles and saddles; hence, a saddler.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A maker of bits, spurs, and metal mounting for bridles and saddles; hence, a saddler.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A person who makes the bits and other metal parts of a horse's bridle, and other small metal pieces

Etymologies

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Old French lormier, loremier, from Latin loranum bridle, Latin lorum thong, the rein of a bridle.

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  • saddlemaker

    May 11, 2008

  • "We might be forgiven for envisaging Birmingham already as mainly a town of metal trades. The smiths, lorimers, and nailers probably made more noise and show, but wills and tax-assessments tell us that the wealthiest townsmen were still tanners and butchers, as in many other Midland towns."

    W. G. Hoskins (1956). English Provincial Towns in the Early Sixteenth Century. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (Fifth Series), 6 , pp 1-19

    doi:10.2307/3678838

    The OED online (definition from the second edition, 1989) says it is "A maker of bits and metal mountings for horses' bridles; also, a spurrier, and (generally) a maker of small iron ware and a worker in wrought-iron. "

    June 29, 2009

  • Also see loremer.

    January 26, 2023

  • The Dragon court was in a perpetual commotion with knights, squires, and grooms, coming in with orders for new armor, or for old to be furbished, and the tent-makers, lorimers, mercers, and tailors had their hands equally full.

    March 24, 2023