Obs. Forms: 7 charrettier, chariter. [a. OF. charetier, now charrettier, f. charete, charrette (prob. of Rom. age: cf. It. carrettiero, Sp. carretero).]
1. The driver of a ‘charet’; a charioteer.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 60. The charettiers mingled themselves with the battell of the footmen.
1656. Heylin, Surv. France, 14. There our Chareter brought us to the ruines of an house.
2. (A horse) that draws a ‘charet.’ rare–1. [F. cheval charrettier.]
1601. F. Tate, trans. Househ. Ord. Edw. II., § 56 (1876), 41. A vallet herbergeour, who shal herberge the said horses, sommers, and chariters.
