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sumpters

sumpters is the plural of sumpter.

Meaning of sumpter

Noun

sumpter (plural sumpters)

  1. (historical) The driver of a packhorse.
    • Persuade me rather to be slave and sumpter / To this detested groom.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  2. (historical) A packhorse; a beast of burden.
    • the ancient vse of somers and sumpter horsses is in maner vtterlie relinquished1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC
  3. (obsolete) A pack; a burden.
    • You should have had a Sumpter , tho' 'thad cost me
      The laying on myself1626 February 13 (licensing date; Gregorian calendar), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Noble Gentleman”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey...

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Proper noun capitalized: Sumpters

Sumpters

  1. (plural) plural of Sumpter

Questions about sumpters

What is sumpters the plural of?
Sumpters is the plural of sumpter.
What part of speech is sumpters?
Sumpters is a proper noun.

Words near sumpters in the dictionary

  1. sumpsimus
  2. sumpsimuses
  3. sumpter
  4. sumpter horse
  5. sumpter horses
  6. sumpters
  7. sumptin
  8. sumptin'
  9. sumption
  10. sumptions
  11. sumptiously

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