flemer
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Middle English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
flemer (plural flemers)
- one who banishes or expels
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Man of Law's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 459-460:
- [...] The whyte lamb, that hurt was with the spere,
Flemer of feendes out of him and here [...]- [...] The white lamb, that was hurt with a spear,
Banisher of fiends out of man and woman [...]
- [...] The white lamb, that was hurt with a spear,
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Man of Law's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 459-460:
References[edit]
- “flemer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.