Also 6 balletter, 7 -ater, -adder. [f. BALLAD v. or sb. + -ER1.] A writer of ballads or (obs.) of scurrilous verses.
1589. Nashe, Almond for P., Ded. 3. A man cannot haue a bout with a Balletter … but hee shall be in daunger of a further displeasure.
1637. Heywood, Pleas. Dial., 283. A base and infamous Balladder, who disperst a scandalous riming Libell.
1878. Simpson, Sch. Shaks., I. 134. As balladers and dramatists agree in representing his case.
