Obs. Also 6 enconterer. [f. ENCOUNTER v. + -ER.] One who or that which encounters; an adversary, opponent.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. clxix. 200. They … rode close togyder in good aray … but they founde no encounterers.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, III. xxv. (Arb.), 310. In another respect arte is as it were an encountrer and contrary to nature.
1611. Chapman, Iliad, XX. 151/280. The earth did grone With feete of proud encounterers.
1656. H. More, Antid. Ath., II. x. (1712), 70. The Lion … will strike such a stroke with his tail, that he will break the back of his Encounterer with it.
b. One who meets (another) half-way; a ‘forward’ person, coquette. rare–1.
1606. Shaks., Tr. & Cr., IV. v. 58. Oh these encounterers so glib of tongue.
