English Explanatory Dictionary

feuterer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A keeper of dogs, especially of greyhounds.

Word forms

feuterer feuterers fewterer vewter

Etymology

Either from German Fütterer (“feeder”) (see füttern), or corrupted from Old French vautrier, vaultrier, from vaultre, viautre (“a kind of hound”), from Latin vertragus, vertraga (“a greyhound”). The last is of Celtic/Gaulish origin, from Proto-Celtic *uɸor- (“over”) + *tregess (“foot”).

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