apprizer

English

Etymology

From apprize +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪzə(ɹ)

Noun

apprizer (plural apprizers)

1. An appraiser.
2. (hiatorical, Scots law) A creditor for whom an appraisal is made.
   • 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:

     The apprizer, therefore (as the holder of a mortgage was then called), entered upon possession, and, in the language of Hotspur, “came me cranking in”

References

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