Obs. Chiefly Sc. Also 6 summeleir, symleir, somme-, somlier, sommler, somlar, semlar. [a. F. sommelier, f. somme pack.] A butler.
1543. St. Papers Hen. VIII., IX. 325. To gyve commaundement that your sommelier at Bordeaulx might be suffred to departe with such wynes as he had provided for Your Majestie.
1566. Reg. Privy Council Scot., I. 451. Leonard Baillie, summeleir to oure Soveranis.
1583. Excheq. Rolls Scot., XXI. 563. Threttie tunnis of full Burdehous wyne … at the cheis and contentment of his hienes somleris.
