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Webster 1913 Edition

Souter

Sou′ter

,

Noun.

[AS.

s[GREEK]t[GREEK]re

, fr. It.

sutor

, fr.

suere

to sew.]

A shoemaker; a cobbler.

[Obs.]

Chaucer.

There is no work better than another to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a

souter

, or an apostle, – all is one.

Tyndale.

Webster 1828 Edition

Souter

SOUTER

,

Noun.

[L. sutor.] A shoemaker; a cobler. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024

souter

souter

English

Noun

souter ‎(plural souters)

(Scotland, Northern England) A shoemaker or cobbler.

(Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

(Can we find and add a quotation of Tyndale to this entry?)
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 31:
  He was a shoemaker, the creature, and called himself the Sutor, an old-fashioned name that folk laughed at.

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