† Cheaper

sb. Obs. Also 6 cheper. [f. CHEAP v. + -ER¹.] One who bids a price, or inquires the price; a bidder, a purchaser.

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a. 1529. Skelton, Maner of World, Poems I. 151.

	So many chepers,
	So fewe biers,
	And so many borowers,
	Sawe I never.

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1539. Taverner, Erasm. Prov. (1545), 34. Bycause y^e cheaper shulde be the more wyllynge to gyue the reasonable & due price.

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1553. Grimalde, Cicero’s Offices, III. (1558), 139 b. [He] had required y^t y^e price of y^e ground whereof he was a cheaper [emptor] shold once be shewed him: & y^e seller had so done.

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