Fewer vs Fewter - What's the difference?
fewer | fewter |
The comparative of few ; a smaller number.
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 .
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.
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)- Fewer women wear hats these days.
- There are fewer tigers than there were a hundred years ago.