rare. Also 6–7 wooluer. [f. WOLVE v. or inflexional stem of WOLF sb. + -ER1.]
1. One who behaves like a wolf; a ravenous or savage creature.
1593. G. Harvey, Pierce’s Super., 147. Three meales of a Lazarello, make the fourth a Woolner [sic]
1604. T. M., Black Bk., Epistle to Rdr. Scylla and Charibdis, those two Cormorants and Woolners [sic] of the Sea.
1883. Cornh. Mag., Feb., 184. Masses of collapsing jelly-fish, fierce little ‘wolvers’ throwing out their inky, fan-shaped stings in a fine rage.
2. One who searches or hunts for wolves.
a. 1909. E. Thompson Seton, Billy, i. (C. D. Suppl.). As the wolver rode down an adjoining cañon, he saw a Wolf come out of a hole.
1921. H. Mortimer Batten, in Chambers’s Jrnl., July, 473/1. Jess Nodwell, the wolver, exploring unsurveyed territory north of Butte Leg Flats.
