sumpter
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Old French sometier, from late Latin sagma, from Greek σαγμα ‘pack-saddle’.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈsʌmptə/
[edit] Noun
sumpter (plural sumpters)
- (obsolete) the driver of a packhorse
- 1605: Persuade me rather to be slave and sumpter / To this detested groom. — William Shakespeare, King Lear, II.ii
- a packhorse, a beast of burden
[edit] See also
sumpter in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
