Obs. Forms: 4 feuter, (fewtyre), 5 fewter, -tir(e, -tre. [a. OF. feutre, fautre (:—late L. filtrum: see FELT, FILTER), lit. ‘felt,’ hence a felt-lined socket for a spear.]

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  The rest or support for a lance or spear attached to the saddle of a knight or man-at-arms.

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c. 1350.  Will. Palerne, 3437. Wiþ spere festened in feuter.

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a. 1400[?].  Morte Arth., 1366.

        A faire floreschte spere
  in fewtyre he castes.

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c. 1450.  Merlin, 127. That other knyght com hym a-gein, gripynge his spere in the fewtre.

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c. 1470.  Henry the Minstrel, Wallace, III. 165.

        Thair cheyff chyftan …
In fewtir kest a fellone aspre sper.

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1470–85.  Malory, Arthur, VI. ii. Syre Ector anone torned hym shortly in fewter cast his spere and smote the other knyghte a grete buffet that his hors torned twyes aboute.

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