Jump to content

somner

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

somner (plural somners)

  1. (obsolete) A summoner; especially, one who summons to an ecclesiastical court.
    • 1608, Thomas Middleton, A Trick to Catch the Old One, act 2, scene 1; republished in The Works of Thomas Middleton[1], volume 2, London: Edward Lumley, 1840, page 29:
      Life, they may do any thing there, man, and fear neither beadle nor somner

Anagrams

[edit]