Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who owns or keeps a rabbit warren.
- noun A gamekeeper.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The keeper of a warren.
- noun A name in Tasmania of certain large marine shells, such as species of Haliotis and Turbo. See
mariner .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The keeper of a warren.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
farms orhunts rabbits professionally.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun maintains a rabbit warren
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ay, forsooth: but he is as tall a man of his hands as any is between this and his head; he hath fought with a warrener.
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Ay, forsooth; but he is as tall a man of his hands as any is between this and his head: he hath fought with a warrener.
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"I have also to tell you that I have distrained Wat the warrener from his cottage, for his Christmas rent is still unpaid, nor the hen-rents of last year."
Sir Nigel Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1906
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"I have also to tell you that I have distrained Wat the warrener from his cottage, for his Christmas rent is still unpaid, nor the hen-rents of last year."
Sir Nigel Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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It was before dawn on New Year's Day that they reached the cottage of Perks, a warrener or gamekeeper, who had been dismissed from Mrs Littleton's service for dishonesty.
It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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Yorkshire, and he was _obliged_ to leave the care of the warren entirely to the warrener, who was _obliged_ to quit his house during the snow, and to take shelter with a neighbour: he neglected to clear the walls; and Marvel upon his return home, found that his silver sprigs had strayed into a neighbouring warren.
Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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But remember, that the warrener pays a high rent, and that therefore his rabbits are as much his property as his sheep.
Stories for the Young Or, Cheap Repository Tracts: Entertaining, Moral, and Religious. Vol. VI. Hannah More 1789
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Ay, forsooth: but he is as tall a man of his hands as any is between this and his head; he hath fought with a warrener.
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Ay, forsooth; but he is as tall a man of his hands as any is between this and his head; he hath fought with a warrener.
The Merry Wives of Windsor William Shakespeare 1590
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_ Ay, forsooth: but he is as tall a man of his hands as any is between this and his head; he hath fought with a warrener.
The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] William Shakespeare 1590
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