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Fewer vs Fewter - What's the difference?

fewer | fewter |

As a determiner fewer

is the comparative of few ; a smaller number.

As a noun fewter is

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

As a verb fewter is

to rest (a spear) in its fewter.

fewer

English

Determiner

(en-det) (superlative fewest)
  • The comparative of few ; a smaller number.
  • Fewer women wear hats these days.
    There are fewer tigers than there were a hundred years ago.

    Usage notes

    See also

    * less

    fewter

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    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    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.