Now Hist. Forms: α. 5 loryner, lorriner, 6– loriner; β. loyrymer, 5–6 lorymar, -er, 6 loremar, lorymere, lormener, (Sc.) loremair, lowriemeir, 3– lorimer. [a. OF. loremier, lorenier (F. lormier), f. lorain (see LORAIN). For the substitution of m for n cf. LATIMER.] A maker of bits and metal mountings for horses’ bridles; also, a spurrier, and (generally) a maker of small iron ware and a worker in wrought-iron.
(The name persists only in the title of one of the London livery companies.)
[c. 1225. Garlande, in Wright, Voc., 123. Lorimarii dicuntur a loris (seu loralibus) quæ faciunt.]
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 184. He is þi uile [MS. T. þat lorimers habben], & uileð awei al þi rust.
1415. in York Myst., Introd. 22. Sporiers … Lorymers.
14[?]. Nom., in Wr.-Wülcker, 686/21. Hic lorinarius, a loryner.
1453. Mem. Ripon (Surtees), III. 161. Et de 6d. sol. loyrymer pro … emendale de les barres fenestrarum.
1469. Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.), 538. Item, my master paid to lorymer of London fore vj. brydille bittes … vij.s. ij.d.
a. 1500. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 593/33. Lorimarius, a sporyare, or a lormener.
1503. Privy Purse Exp. Eliz. of York (1830), 97. Item to Symond Warde … lorymere for v DD bittes at xiiijs. the DD, lxxs.
1538. Leland, Itin., IV. II. 186 b. Many Loriners that make Bittes.
1603. Stow, Surv. Lond., 542. Lorimars, the warden and two persons.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Lorimers, is one of the Companies of London, that makes bits for horse bridles, spurs, and such like small iron work.
1833. J. Holland, Manuf. Metal, II. 313. The manufacture of all the metallic parts of horse furniture was carried on … by artisans, incorporated under the denomination of loriners and spurriers.
1884. Rep. Comm. Livery Comp. Lond., III. 567. The Loriners of London appear first to have recorded their ordinances as a mystery in 1245.
1898. Besant, Orange Girl, I. i. Alderman Paul Halliday, Citizen and Loriner.
