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tondour (1221)
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tondour (1221)

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tondor,  toundour;  tundur  
  FEW:  tondere 13/ii,25b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  tondeur 10,775b TL: tondeor 10,374 DEAF:  tondre (tondeor)  DMF:  tondeur  TLF:  tondeur  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

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1livestockoccupationsheep-shearer: 
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  escorgeours ou toundours des berbiz  BRITT i 84
( MS: 1419 )  si tondour soit trové en defaute [...] forface ses forces  Lib Alb 724
2occupationtextileshearman, one who remove the nap of wollen cloth: 
( 1345 )  pur le beverage al (l. as) toundours .j. d.  Grocers 25
( 1404-05 )  Ceux sount les constituciones et ordeignances ordeignez par touz les meisters del artifice des toundours de la citee d'Everwyk  YMB i 106
( MS: 1419 )  Item, qe toundours preignent pur un court draps .xij. deniers  Lib Alb 724
( 1483-84 )  null tondour n’autre persone quele q’il soit, puis le dit feste, tonde ne cancelle ascun drap deinz cest dit roialme  Stats ii 486
3(used as a name): 
( 1221 )  Andrew Tundur  Family Names thunder
( 1261 )  Hugh le Tondor  Family Names thunder
( 1272 )  Costantinus le Tundur  Norwich Records i 217
tondour de drap
occupationtextileshearman, one who remove the nap of wollen cloth: 
( 1464-65 )  cardoresse, fileresse, tistour, fullour, tondour de drap et tinctour  Stats ii 406
tondour de moneie
curr.finan.occupationclipper, one who fraudulently mutilates coins by paring the edges: 
( 1275-79 )  De Gyus faisurs e tundurs de monee e de lur rescetturs ki achatent le argent en plates funduz de retundure  Sel Pleas liv
( 1294 )  La secounde qe puis la dite fraunchise primes grauntee le roy ne ses auncestres ne lor ministres la nurent conoissaunce de toundours de monoie ne autres countrefetours ne fausours de la monoie  Affairs of Ireland 38

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See also:

tondre1  tonderesse  tondeson  tondour  tondure 
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