Also 1 stódmyre, 3–4 stod mere, 4 stode mere, 5 studmer, stude mere, 6–7 Sc. stuid-meir, -mear. [f. STUD sb.2 + MARE. Cf. ON. stóðmerr.] A mare kept for breeding purposes, a brood-mare. Cf. STUD sb.2 4 a.

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a. 1000.  Laws Ælfred, xvi. Ȝif mon cu oððe stodmyran forstele, and folan oððe cealf ofadrife.

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a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 316. Ich am a ful stod mere.

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1404.  Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 399. 1 studmer cum pullo.

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1547.  Boorde, Introd. Knowl., 147. Great studmares we bryng vp in Flaunders.

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1594.  Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot., 34, note. Pasturage of stuid-meiris, profits of each in foill 20 merks. Ibid. (1634), 43/1. Cum pastura 18 animalium et unius lie stuid-meir.

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1709.  Ir. Act & Anne, c. 3 § 34. Every papist or reputed papist may keep such stud-mares and stallions.

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  b.  as an insulting epithet for a woman.

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c. 1440.  York Myst., xxiv. 13. A! ffalse stodmere and stynkand stroye.

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