salator

1 salator [salare+-tor; cf. LL salatus], ~iator [saliare+-tor], person who cures or preserves food with salt, salter (in quot. of venison; cf. et. 2 salator). [gl.: hic ~ator a sale] Balsh. Ut. 46 (v. 2 salator 1a); 1213 mittimus ad vos ‥ vadlettos nostros cum quinque equis et quatuor garcionibus et quatuor bernar’ et septem valtrariis et uno ~atore et xliiij canibus de mota et xxj leporar’, mandantes quatinus eis necessaria inveniatis Cl 133b; 1225 et eis inveniri facias sal et ad venacionem nostram ‥ saliendam, et ~iatori venacionis illius quamdiu ‥ fuerit ad eam saliendam ‥ necessaria invenias Cl 54a.

2 salator [cf. CL salire = jump, leap, saltus = forest, range; cf. et. 1 salator, ? LL alator] 1 class of hunter or huntsman, or ? f. l. b (in gl., understood as) skinner, flayer. numerum venatorum, generaliter quadripartitum ‥ vestigatores, indagatores, ~ores [v. l. sallatores; gl.: escorchours; hic ~or a sale ‥ versus: vestigator et indagator, pressor et ille / et qui salator venatorum numerus sunt; or ? l. alatores], pressores Balsh. Ut. 46 (cf. Isid. Etym. X 282: quattuor ‥ venatorum officia: vestigatores, indagatores, alatores, pressores). b ~ores [gl.: escorchours] (v. 1a supra). 2 (in gl.) forest bailiff, forester, ranger. lawnd kepare, ~or, -ris CathA.

salator

Saved

Recent