subs. (old colloquial).—A coroner. [A corruption of ‘coroner.’]
1596. SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, v. 1. Sec. Cl. The CROWNER hath sat on her, and finds it Christian burial.
1599. NASHE, Lenten Stuffe [GROSART, Works, V., 220]. And if any drowne themselues in them, their CROWNERS sit vpon them.
1835. HALIBURTON (‘Sam Slick’), The Clockmaker, 3 S., ch. ii. You’ll be to Connecticut afore they can wake up the CROWNER and summon a jury.
