lardener

Middle English

Alternative forms

• lardiner, lardner, lardyner

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman lardiner, apparently an alteration of larder (“larder”) after gardiner (“gardener”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌlardiˈneːr/, /ˈlardinər/

Noun

lardener (rare)

1. lardiner (overseer of a larder)
2. (rare) larder (meat storehouse)
   • c. 1375, “Book V”, in Iohne Barbour, De geſtis bellis et uirtutibus domini Roberti de Brwyß […] (The Brus, Advocates MS. 19.2.2)‎^[1], Ouchtirmunſye: Iohannes Ramſay, published 1489, folio 17, verso, lines 408-410; republished at Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c. 2010:

     Þ[ar]for þe men off þat countꝛe / ffor ſwa fele þar mellit wer / Callit it þe Dowglas laꝛdner

     So people from that region, / because so many [corpses] were jumbled there, / called it "the Douglas larder".

Descendants

• English: lardiner (historical)
• Scots: laidner (obsolete)

References

• “lardiner, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.