testern

English

Noun

testern (plural testerns)

1. (obsolete) A sixpence; a tester.

Verb

testern (third-person singular simple present testerns, present participle testerning, simple past and past participle testerned)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To present with a sixpence.
   • 1590 or 1591, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 1 Scene 1 line 152

     To testify to your bounty, I thank
     you, you have testern'd me; in requital whereof,
     henceforth carry your letters yourself.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “testern”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Netters, entrest, netster, netters, retents, tenters