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scowrer

scowrer is the obsolete form of scourer.

Meaning of scourer

Noun

scourer (plural scourers)

  1. A tool used to scour, usually used to clean cookware.
    • A scourer may be in the form of a mesh (ball) of wires, a flat piece of a rough fabric, or a pad with a soft sponge-like side and a more abrasive side.
  2. (obsolete) A rover or footpad; a prowling robber.
    • in those days of highwaymen and scourers1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and...

Forms of scowrer

pluralscowrers

Questions about scowrer

What is scowrer the obsolete form of?
Scowrer is the obsolete form of scourer.

Words near scowrer in the dictionary

  1. scowlings
  2. scowls
  3. scowly
  4. scowman
  5. scowmen
  6. scowrer
  7. scowrers
  8. scowrie
  9. scows
  10. SCP
  11. SCPHN

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