Talk:ewre

RFV discussion: December 2021–March 2022
RFV-sense "rust, oxide". The OED does have an entry for this which includes the Lowe quote, but they mark the word as obsolete and the meaning as uncertain ("? Rust, oxide."), and the second of the quotations which had been in our entry (by Francis) pretty clearly means "ore" and not "rust" (I can't find any citations that describe, whereas industrial furnaces do melt tons of copper ore.) Other citations I can find mean ewer. Perhaps someone can figure out what word Lowe intended... - -sche (discuss) 01:20, 22 December 2021 (UTC)


 * I cannot find an online text of the 1634 edition of Lowe's Art of Chirurgerie (the sentence is absent from the earlier edition in EEBO), which means we cannot try and read from context. Without that I would suggest it's an impossible task to work out what he meant. This, that and the other (talk) 09:56, 22 December 2021 (UTC)


 * The MED has (albeit not as a headword) ewre as a spelling of, and of ewer or ewery. The EDD has ewr and many other spellings as a dialectal word for an udder (which we seem to be udderly lacking).
 * Perhaps the quote is an error for ewe ("hue"); the spelling hewe was common in the Scots and Scottish English of his day (and later), if the h was omitted from the spelling as in Middle English, then all a printer would've had to do is insert a stray r, perhaps thinking of one of the other words that are spelled ewre. - -sche (discuss) 01:36, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

RFV-failed This, that and the other (talk) 01:47, 4 March 2022 (UTC)