souter

A shoemaker or cobbler.

Noun

  1. A shoemaker or cobbler.
    • There is no work better than another to please God : to pour water , to wash dishes , to be a souter (cobbler) , or an apostle - 1527, William Tyndale, The Parable of the Wicked Mammon:
    • He was a shoemaker, the creature, and called himself the Sutor, an old-fashioned name that folk laughed at. - 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 31:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English soutere, from Old English sūtere, from Latin sūtor (“shoemaker, cobbler”).

Forms

souters

Derived

souterly