Also 6–7 tytler, 7 titeter. [app. f. TITLE sb. + -ER1.]

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  † 1.  One who claims or asserts a legal title. Obs.

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1594.  Parsons, Confer. Success., II. Pref. Q iv b. His meaning was … to lay down sincerly what … might iustly be alleaged in fauour or disfauour of euery tytler.

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1599.  Daniel, Musophilus, xix. Leuell’d with th’ earth, left to forgetfulnesse; Whilst titlers their pretended rights decide.

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1613.  Daniel, Hist. Eng. (1626), 169. John Comyn his cousen German being a Titeler himself.

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1634.  Two Noble Kinsmen, V. iii. 83. The two bold Tytlers, at this instant are Hand to hand at it.

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  2.  Trade name for a truncated cone of refined sugar.

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1858.  Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Titlers, a description of refined sugar.

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1859.  Times, 24 Oct., 9/4. Conical loaves of sugar called titlers. Ibid. (1891), 9 Oct., 9/3. Titlers, 18s. 9d.; crushed f.o.b., barrels, 20s.

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