[f. SPEECH sb.1 or v.]
1. One who makes speeches; a speaker.
1762. Foote, Orator, I. Wks. 1799, I. 194. Here is a man … that will make thee a speecher at once.
1818. Moore, Fudge Fam. Paris, ix. 108. Oh, can we wonder, best of speechers! That [etc.].
2. Harrow slang. The speech-room; speech-day.
1894. Wilkins & Vivian, Green Bay Tree, I. 43. When Butler called you up to give you the key in speecher this morning.
1905. H. A. Vachell, The Hill, i. You ought to have been here last Speecher.
