Middle English Dictionary Entry
ǒutputter n.
Entry Info
| Forms | ǒutputter n. |
| Etymology | From putter n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. intaker.
1.
(a) One who sells stolen goods; (b) unkinde ~, unnatural helper in an escape.
Associated quotations
a
- (1421) RParl.4.143a : Graund partie des ditz suppliantz sont destruitz par plusurs larons & felons appellez In-takers & Out-putters, demurantz deins les Franchises de Tyndale, Rydesdale, & Hexhamshire..qar le greindre nombre qi inhabitent deins les ditz Franchises, ou sont tiels malfesours, ou mainteinours d'eulx en lour mauveiste.
- (1421) Statutes Realm2.207 : Diverses persones larons & felons appellez Intakers & Outputters demourantz deinz la franchise de Ridesdale, en quele franchise le brief du Roy ne court mye.
b
- c1400 Brut-1333 (Rwl B.171)244/31 : Þe bere shulde flee, wiþ a swyne in his company, vnto Bur, toward þe North, þrouȝ an vnkynde out-puter.