subs. (literary: perhaps obsolete).—A butler; a pantry-man.—B. E. (c. 1696); GROSE (1785).
1598. SHAKESPEARE, 2 Henry IV., ii. 4. Fal. A good shallow young fellow: he would have made a good PANTLER, he would have chipped bread well.
1604. SHAKESPEARE, Winter’s Tale, iv. 4.
| My old wife liv’d, upon | |
| This day she was both PANTLER, butler, cook; | |
| Both dame and servant; welcom’d all; serv’d all. |
1607. G. WILKINS, The Miseries of Enforced Marriage, ii. [DODSLEY, Old Plays (REED), v. 24]. Ilford. A rogue that hath fed upon me, and the fruit of my wit like pullen from a PANTLER’S chippings.
1656. R. BROME, A Joviall Crew [DODSLEY, Old Plays (REED), x. 338]. But I will presently take order with the cook, PANTLER, and butler, for my wonted allowance to the poor.
