Also 6 stoarer, storyar, Sc. storour(e, -are, storrour, stourour. [f. STORE v. and sb. + -ER1.]
1. One who, or a thing that, stores or keeps in store.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VII. ix. 23. Tirrheus thair fader was fee maister, and gyde Of studis, flokis, bowis; and heyrdis wyde, As storoure to the king, did kep and ȝime. Ibid., XII. Prol. 263. Welcum stourour of alkynd bestiall.
1540. Palsgr., Acolastus, II. i. I iij. The storer of some well moneyed mayster .i. the keper or ouerseer of the prouision for householde.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. lxix. 10. Ye trew rule of Godlynesse … whereof ye church is ye faithful storer.
1640. T. Brugis, Marrow of Physicke, I. 55. Memory is the sure storer of all things, as in a magazine.
1864. E. A. Parkes, Pract. Hygiene, 89. Sulpburous Acid Gas.—The bleachers in cotton and worsted manufactories, and storers of woollen articles, are most exposed to this gas.
b. One who hoards, lays by, or makes provision, for (a need).
1599. Hayward, 1st Pt. Life Hen. IV., 59. The King in peace no stoarer for war.
1622. Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., I. 26. My Mother was a storer, a thrifty Wench.
1907. Athenæum, 14 Sept., 307/1. The coal-tit is undoubtedly a storer for the future.
† c. ? A partner or shareholder in a joint-stock undertaking. Obs.
1623. in Trans. New Shaks. Soc. (1885), 499. The said Thomas Greene … was a fellow Actor or player of and in the Companie … of the late queenes Matie Queene Anne,… and a full adventurer, storer and sharer of in and amongst them.
d. One who stocks or peoples.
1690. C. Nesse, Hist. & Myst. O. & N. Test., I. 125. To him who was the first storer of the world [sc. Adam].
2. Something kept to produce a store or stock.
a. = STANDEL 1. ? Obs.
1543. [see STANDEL 1].
1572. B. N. C. Munim., 24. 27, Storyars.
1670. J. Smith, Eng. Improv. Reviv’d, 100. About 2 years after the planting one of the best plants is to be reserved as a Standil or Storer.
1721. Mortimer, Husb., II. 109. I divided my Trees into three sorts, viz. first Storers, which I reckoned all to be that were under 12 Inches Circumference; secondly, Saplings, which I called all under 24 Inches Circumference; and what was two Foot Circumference … I reckoned Timber-trees.
1792. Jrnls. Ho. Comm., 13 Feb., 234/1. Storers, or Saplings.
† b. A number of animals kept for breeding. Obs.
1569. in W. H. Turner, Select. Rec. Oxford (1880), 330. They have put fyve swannes upon the water to be storer for the Cytye.
