local. Forms: 6 shewter, 7, 9 shooter, 9 suiter, -or. [f. SUIT v. + -ER1. Cf. FOLLOWER 5 a (VOLLER), and suity-board s.v. SUITY a. 3; suitel is a variant in Northamptonshire (Baker, N’hampton Gloss.).] a. A round board placed between two cheeses in the press. b. A square board in a cider-press placed on the top of the pile of must or ‘cheese’. More fully, suiter-board.

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1586.  Shuttleworths’ Acc. (Chetham Soc.), 29. Fiyffe cheffates [i.e., cheese-vats] … and one shewter vjs viijd.

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1625.  in Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk., s.v., Eleven chefats, five shooters.

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1833.  Loudon, Encycl. Archit., § 1316. [In a cider-press] A square board, termed a shooter.

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1870.  in Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk., s.v. Follower, Cheese-vats, followers, and suitors.

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1886.  Cheshire Gloss., Shooter boards or suiter boards.

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