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• souter
  souter

  noun

  a person who makes or repairs shoes; cobbler; shoemaker.
• Souter
  Souter

  noun

  David H., born 1939, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990–2009.

souter

¹ American  

[soo-tuhr] / ˈsu tər /

Or soutter

noun

Scot. and North England.

1. a person who makes or repairs shoes; cobbler; shoemaker.

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Souter ² American  

[soo-ter] / ˈsu tər /

noun

1. David H., born 1939, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990–2009.

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souter British  

/ ˈsuːtər /

noun

1. a shoemaker or cobbler

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Etymology

Origin of souter

before 1000; Middle English sutor, Old English sūtere < Latin sūtor, equivalent to sū-, variant stem of su ( ere ) to sew ¹ + -tor -tor

Example Sentences

"It wadna be worth their while putting ony o' us twa into prent," rejoined the souter.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various

Her father had been a souter and a pawky chiel enough, but was doited for many years, and her mother was sair dottled.

From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Ramsay, Edward Bannerman

To whome the colyer answeryd hym: he was well, whan I sawe hym laste; for he was rydynge and waited but for a souter to plucke on his botes.

From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by Hazlitt, William Carew

A souter to his trade, he'd left the toun Sax months before to work in Troon, To carry clubs or mend auld shoon, At ilka t' ade a handy loon.

From A Golfing Idyll or The Skipper's Round with the Deil On the Links of St. Andrews by Flint, Violet

The souter, wi' his bristly chin, Frae whilk the lasses screechin' rin; The curly-headed whupper-in, Will a' be at the rockin'.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles