[f. BIBLE + -ER1.] † a. A student or reader of the Bible. † b. A Bible-clerk. c. Sc. One of the older scholars in a Scotch country school, so called because the Bible was their class-book.
1538. Coverdale, N. T., Ded. New-fangled fellows, English biblers, coblers of divinity.
1569. in Etoniana (1865), 220. The Bibler’s office seems to have been to read a portion of Scripture in the hall at dinner. In the accounts for 1569 there is a charge ‘for making ii halfpaces in the hawle for the Bybelers to stand upon, vs.’
1625. trans. Gonsalvio’s Sp. Inquis., 170. Many would scornfully … tearm him a good Bibler.
1883. Nasmyth, Autobiog., ii. 20. The Bibler’s Seat is marked † [i.e., a seat on the Castle rock to which the bigger boys used to climb].
