Now rare. [f. FUEL v. + -ER1.] One who or that which supplies fuel for fires. Also, the domestic who makes the fires, and fig.
14[?]. Nom., in Wr.-Wülcker, 688/32. Hic focarius, a fewyller.
1483. Cath. Angl., 145/1. Fueller (A. Feweller), focarius.
1591. Percivall, Sp. Dict., Leñador, a fueller, a wood carrier.
1601. Chettle & Munday, Death Earl of Huntington, I., in Hazl., Dodsley, VIII. 235.
| See the fueller | |
| Suffer the cook to want no wood. |
a. 1603. T. Cartwright, Confut. Rhem. N. T. (1618), 738. Let vs see what fine fuellers they be in the Popes kichen that they can make the Purgatorie fire so cunningly, that the sindging heat thereof shall not trouble nor hinder the peace & blessed estate of the faithfull that are departed.
1647. C. Harvey, Sch. Heart (Grosart), 122. See how hell’s fueller his bellowes plies Blowing the fire that burnt too fast before.
1720. Strype, Stow’s Surv. (1754), II. V. xiv. 313/2. The Carmen … were incorporated with the people called Fuellers by the name of woodmongers.
1892. Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, 5 May. The fuelers … desire to help the cargo loaders.
