Word.ws English Dictionary

fewter

/ˈfjuːtə/

fewter noun: a support or holder for a spear, attached to a saddle or breastplate.

Noun

fewter (plural fewters)

  1. A support or holder for a spear, attached to a saddle or breastplate.
    • From heaven the spear-light vertical in its fewter.1994, Jeanette Winterson, Art & Lies

Verb

fewter (third-person singular simple present fewters, present participle fewtering, simple past and past participle fewtered)

  1. (transitive) To rest (a spear) in its fewter.
    • His speare he feutred, and at him it bore, / But with no better fortune than the rest afore.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • Without further words, the two gentlemen retreated to the opposite ends of the clearing, fewtered their spears, and prepared to hurtle together in the preliminary charge.1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter 7, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone)

Forms of fewter

Noun
pluralfewters
alternative formfeuter
Verb
third-person singular presentfewters
present participlefewtering
past participlefewtered
pastfewtered

Origin of fewter

From Middle English feuter, fewtre, from Old French feutre, from Medieval Latin filtrum, of Germanic origin. Doublet of filter.

Questions about fewter

What does fewter mean?
Fewter means a support or holder for a spear, attached to a saddle or breastplate.
What part of speech is fewter?
Fewter can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce fewter?
Fewter is pronounced /ˈfjuːtə/.
What is the plural of fewter?
The plural of fewter is fewters.

Words near fewter in the dictionary

  1. fewnomial
  2. fewnomials
  3. fewscore
  4. fewsome
  5. fewte
  6. fewter
  7. fewtered
  8. fewterer
  9. fewterers
  10. fewtering
  11. fewterlock

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fewter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fewter.wav.

Cite this entry: “fewter.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/fewter. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.