Forms: 4–5 lardener(e, 4, 7, 9 lardiner, 5 -yner, lardnir, lardnare, 6 Sc. ladinar, ladner, laidner, 7 Sc. lairner. [a. AF. lardiner, an altered form (? after gardiner GARDENER; for the form cf. vintner) of larder, OF. lardier, f. lard: see LARD sb.]
† 1. = LARDER 1. north. and Sc. Obs.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 4688 (Gött.). Ma þan a thousand celers Fild he wid wines … And lardineris wid saltid fless.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, V. 410. Tharfor the men of that cuntre, For sic thingis thar mellit were, Callit it ‘the Douglas lardenere.’
c. 1450. Holland, Howlat, 217. Quhill the lardnir [MS. B. lardun] was laid, held he na houss.
14[?]. Chalmerlan Ayr, c. 20 (Sc. Stat. I.). Item quhen þai opyn fische þai luke nocht quheder þai be mesale fische or wane, þat js þe cause quhy na fischar suld mak lardnare.
1663. Inv. Ld. J. Gordon’s Furniture, Item, in the lairner, ane mat and ane pair of blankets.
1710. Colvil, Whig Supplic., II. (1741), 94. His Wardrobe and his Buttery; His Lardner and his Bibliotheck.
2. An official who has charge of a larder. Obs. exc. as the title of an honorary office (see quot. 1887).
[13[?]. Liber Custumarum (1860), 474. Tenuȝ … par le service destre Chief Lardiner al Coronement nostre dit Seignur le Roy.]
c. 1400. Dogg Lardyner, in Babees Bk., 358. Hoo so makyȝt at Crystysmas a dogge lardyner and yn March a sowe gardyner,… he schall never haue good larder ne fayre gardyn.
1469. Househ. Ord. (1790), 93. To see the remaines hadde into the lardre, and the lardener to be charged with it.
1507. Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844), I. 437. The fleschouris, baxteris, brousteris, ladinaris.
1601. F. Tate, Househ. Ord. Edw. II., § 50 (1876), 34. Vsher of the larder, under the lardiner.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 473. Sculton … was held by this tenure, that the Lord thereof on the Coronation daie of the Kings of England, should bee chiefe Lardiner.
1679. Blount, Anc. Tenures, 10.
1887. St. James’s Gaz., 25 Aug., 5/1. To the manor of Scoulton, in the county of Norfolk, is attached the office of Chief Lardiner, whose duty it is on the coronation day to attend to the provisions in the royal larder.
† 3. attrib. in ladner time, the time when cattle were slaughtered; also (confused with LADE v.), in † ladner ship, a freight or transport ship. Sc.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., II. VIII. 96. With a ladner schip [L. navi oneraria] standeng thair be chance. Ibid., II. IX. 237. Certane shipis callet ladner.
1805. in Ramsay, Scolt. & Scotsmen in 18th Cent. (1888), II. ii. 69. The laidner or slaughtering time was therefore an occasion of much festivity.
1861. Smiles, Lives Engineers, II. 97. Salted beef and mutton, which was stored up at ladner time, betwixt Michaelmas and Martinmas, for the year’s consumption.
