Ewre vs Eyre - What's the difference?
ewre | eyre |
(rare) Rust; oxide.
*1634 , Lowe, Chirurg. :
*1881 , George Grant Francis, The Smelting of Copper in the Swansea District of South Wales :
As nouns the difference between ewre and eyre
is that ewre is rust; oxide while eyre is a journey in circuit of certain itinerant judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere).As a proper noun Eyre is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- By the continuall sorting and telling of this coyne, then did enter of the ewre of that brasse and copper under the nails of her fingers.
- Wee are able to melt it w'th two fornises in the space of 40 weekes the quantitie of 560 tonne of ewre' if wee might have it, and if the ' ewre be clean and well sorted the mor copper it will yeld.
