Also 6 affraier, affraior, 7 affrayor. [f. AFFRAY v. + -ER1.] One engaged in an affray; a disturber of the peace.
1553–87. Foxe, A. & M., I. 666/2. To make these Congregations of the Lollards to be … affraiers of the people.
1581. Lambarde, Eiren., II. iii. (1588), 140. Any man also may stay the Affraiors, until the storme of their heat be calmed.
1716. W. Hawkins, Pleas of Crown, I. xxviii. (1824), I. 490. lf affrayers fly to a house … [the constable] … may break open the doors to take them.
1790. Dallas, Reports, I. 363. It is lawful to part affrayers in the house of another man.
