rotarius

1 rotarius [CL rota+-arius] 1 that has a wheel or wheels, wheeled. b (as sb. n.) wheel or wheel rim. 1250 cyvarium j ~ium , 1258 in j civera empta ~ea (v. civera c).  b 1258 humi prostratum et terre pre timore herentem ac ~ia carettarum utraque manu tenentem per totum tergum et humeros conculcaverunt JustIt 1187 r. 14d.. 2 (as sb. m.) one who makes wheels, wheelwright; b (passing into surname). ~ii cumulant denarios fabricando vel vendendo bigas et quadrigas et plaustra Garl. Dict. 129; 1295 ~io pro ij rotis ad subportandum ingenia v s. viij d. KR Ac 5/10; 1351 Henricus Caps, ~ius [altered to ‘whelere’], vendidit unum par rotarum ad vij s. Enf. Stat. Lab. 404; hic ~ius, A. whelmaker WW; ~ii, plaustrarii, whele wryghtes, carte wryghtes Whittington Vulg. 66.  b 1167 idem vicecomes reddit compotum de Schaga Danielis ~ii Pipe 129; 1176 Alfwinus ~ius ‥ debet dimidiam marcam Pipe 197; 1199 domum quandam apud Bristoll’ quam Petrus ~ius tenuit in feria Bristoll’ RChart 2a; 1283 Willielmus ~ius Cust. Battle 83; 1302 Gillecrist et David ~iis facientibus rotas et plaustra KR Ac 482/20 r. l.; 1328 in mercede Henrici ~ii et garcionis ejus ‥ ad sculpandum merimium pro carettis ‥ et ‥ ad ponendum ‥ axem in plaustro de merimio domini MinAc 1070/29.

2 rotarius v. routarius