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warrener

American  
[wawr-uh-ner, wor-] / ˈwɔr ə nər, ˈwɒr- /

noun

  1. the keeper of a rabbit warren.


warrener British  
/ ˈwɒrənə /

noun

  1. obsolete a gamekeeper or keeper of a warren (sense 4)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of warrener

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; see origin at warren, -er 1


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Gerard, the warrener, his back to a table on which are flagons, etc. 1st Retainer.

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Helen Archibald Clarke

It was before dawn on New Year’s Day that they reached the cottage of Perks, a warrener or gamekeeper, who had been dismissed from Mrs Littleton’s service for dishonesty.

From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by M. (Madelaine) Irwin

"I have also to tell you that I have distrained Wat the warrener from his cottage, for his Christmas rent is still unpaid, nor the hen-rents of last year."

From Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Ay, forsooth: but he is as tall a man of his hands as any is between this and his head; he hath fought with a warrener.

From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by John Glover

But remember, that the warrener pays a high rent, and that therefore his rabbits are as much his property as his sheep.

From Stories for the Young Or, Cheap Repository Tracts: Entertaining, Moral, and Religious. Vol. VI. by Hannah More

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