Verb

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Verb

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(colloquial, rare, transitive, and, intransitive) To usher: to perform the action of an usher: to escort.

* 2000 , Jonathan Pearce, John-Browne's Body and Sole: A Semester of Life , BalonaBooks (2006), ISBN 978-0-9765479-6-9, page 142:

And she is Mrs. Freundlich’s dear friend, so old Mark, who was acting as usher, ushed her and Mrs. Preene to seats right up in front next to Claire so Mrs. Shaw could scope out everything I did.

Verb

To guide people to their seats.

* 1836 , , Sketches by Boz , "The curate. The old lady. The half-pay captain."

Her entrance into church on Sunday is always the signal for a little bustle in the side aisle, occasioned by a general rise among the poor people, who bow and curtsey until the pew-opener has ushered the old lady into her accustomed seat, dropped a respectful curtsey, and shut the door;

To accompany or escort (someone).

* 1898 , , The Rise of the Dutch Republic , page 509

Margaret was astonished at the magnificence of the apartments into which she was ushered .

(figuratively) To precede; to act as a forerunner or herald.

* 1912 , Elizabeth Christine Cook, Literary Influences in Colonial Newspapers, 1704-1750 , page 31

Thus the Harvard poets and wits ushered The New England Courant out of existence.

(figuratively) to lead or guide somewhere

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, year=2011 , date=December 29 , author=Keith Jackson , title=SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0 , work=Daily Record citation , page= , passage=McCoist unexpectedly ushered back a defender of his own with Kirk Broadfoot taking over from Steven Whittaker. There was, of course, another change, Kyle Bartley stepping in at centre-half to replace suspended Dorin Goian.}}