1. One who crowns: in various senses of the vb.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 105. Crownere, or corownere, coronator.
1617. Fletcher, Mad Lover, V. i. Oh, fair sweet goddess, queen of loves … Crowner of all happy nights.
1660. Burney, Κέρδ. Δῶρον (1661), 15. He … is the holy Anointer, the Crowner himself.
1860. Pusey, Min. Proph., 564. He who was to be … the sure Foundation and Crowner of the whole building.
2. The crowning act.
1840. R. H. Dana, Bef. Mast, xxvii. 92. That very night we slipped our cables, as a crowner to our fun ashore.
1860. O. W. Holmes, Elsie V., xxv. Wal, if that a’n’t the craowner!
3. A fall on the crown of the head.
1861. Whyte-Melville, Good for Nothing, II. xxvi. 201. A ‘crowner’ for John, whose horse goes shoulder deep into a hole.
1879. Forbes, in Daily News, 28 June, 5/7. The inevitable fate of the rider is an imperial crowner, with, as like as not, his horse on the top of him.
