Tester vs Tetter - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between tester and tetter

is that tester is a canopy over a bed or tester can be a person who administers a test or tester can be an old french silver coin while tetter is any of various pustular skin conditions.

As a verb tetter is

to affect with tetter .

tester

English

Etymology 1

Probably from (etyl) testre, from (etyl) testa.

Noun

(en noun)

A canopy over a bed.

*1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.13:

*:And I could as hardly spare my gloves as my shirt, or forbeare washing of my hands both in the mornng and rising from the table, or lye in a bed without a testerne and curtaines about it, as of most necessary things.

* Walpole

No testers to the bed, and the saddles and portmanteaus heaped on me to keep off the cold.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane half tester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.}}

Something that overhangs something else; especially a canopy or soundboard over a pulpit.

*1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby Dick) , :

With our shaggy jackets drawn about our shoulders, we now passed the Tomahawk from one to the other, till slowly there grew over us a blue hanging tester of smoke, illuminated by the flame of the new-lit lamp.

Etymology 2

From .

Noun

(en noun)

A person who administers a test.

A device used for testing.

(Australia, slang, obsolete) A punishment of 25 lashes (strokes of a whip) across a person?s back.1987 , , 1996, paperback, ISBN 1-86046-150-6, Chapter 12.

A sample of perfume available in a shop for customers to try before they buy.

Synonyms

* (punishment) Botany Bay dozen

Etymology 3

For (testern), (teston), from (etyl) teston, from (etyl) teste the head, the head of the king being impressed upon the coin. See (tester) a covering, and compare (testone), (testoon).

Noun

(en noun)

An old French silver coin.

(UK, slang, dated) A sixpence.

Synonyms

* (sixpence) teston, tizzy

References

Anagrams

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tetter

English

Noun

(en noun)

Any of various pustular skin conditions.

*, II.3.2:

*:Angelus Politianus had a tetter in his nose continually running, fulsome in company, yet no man so eloquent and pleasing in his works.

*1973 , Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow :

*:She works at St. Veronica’s hospital, lives nearby at the home of a Mrs. Quoad, a lady widowed long ago and since suffering a series of antiquated diseases—greensickness, tetter , kibes, purples, imposthumes and almonds in the ears, most recently a touch of scurvy.

Verb

(en verb)

To affect with tetter .

* 1603 , '', Act 1, Scene 5, 1998, Kathleen O. Irace (editor), ''The First Quarto of Hamlet , page 50,

And all my smooth body, barked and tettered over.

* 1987 , James L Calderwood, Shakespeare & the Denial of Death , page 134,

Most deaths are ugly, pathetic events, and Shakespeare must have seen his share of them in bodies tettered by the pox, made noseless by syphilis, or festering blackly from the plague.

* 2009 , Adam Thorpe, Hodd , 2010, page 284,

I bent down to touch him, for my revulsion had gone, and had been replaced by a great love and sorrow; and thus I wept upon his form, that was cold like a corpse's, its wasted brawn tettered all over with sores and encrustations that were not the botches and whelks of leprosy — though e'en then I would have embraced him, as St Hugh of Lincoln kissed many a leper for the good of his own spirit!