Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A purveyor; a caterer: as, “Robin Hood's bailiff or acater,” B. Jonson, Sad Shepherd (dram. pers.). Also written acator, accator, achator, achatour, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
caterer .
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- noun obsolete
caterer
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Examples
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= Much =, the miller’s son, the bailiff or “acater” of Robin Hood.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
chained_bear commented on the word acater
"Thus an important new role now developed under the steward: that of the acater--from 'acheter', to buy--who oversaw the purchasing of supplies from local markets and specialist merchants; unlike modern caterers, the acater was emphatically not the cook, but he was the man who got slapped if the cheese ran out."
--Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 89
That's odd. I always thought the cheese stands alone.
January 8, 2017