affeerer

English

Alternative forms

• affurer, affearer (obsolete)

Etymology

Formed in English as affeer +‎ -er, after the Anglo-Norman afferour, affoerour. Compare affeeror.

Noun

affeerer (plural affeerers)

1. (law, obsolete) One who affeers.
   • 1615, John Manwood, Treatise of the Forest Laws:

     They shal be amerced and their amercement shall be affeared by affearers there.

Synonyms

• affeeror

References

• “affeerer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.