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Fewter vs Fester - What's the difference?

fewter | fester |

As verbs the difference between fewter and fester

is that fewter is to rest (a spear) in its fewter while fester is to become septic; to become rotten.

As a noun fewter

is a support or holder for a spear, attached to a saddle or breastplate.

fewter

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Noun

(en noun)
  • A support or holder for a spear, attached to a saddle or breastplate.
  • *1994 , (Jeanette Winterson), Art & Lies :
  • *:From heaven the spear-light vertical in its fewter .

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To rest (a spear) in its fewter.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.4:
  • *:His speare he feutred , and at him it bore, / But with no better fortune than the rest afore.

    • fester

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To become septic; to become rotten.
  • * Milton
    • Wounds immedicable / Rankle, and fester , and gangrene.
  • To worsen, especially due to lack of attention.
    • Deal with the problem immediately; do not let it fester .
  • * Macaulay
    • Hatred festered in the hearts of the children of the soil.
  • To cause to fester or rankle.
  • * Marston
    • For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate, / And fester'd rankling malice in my breast.

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