subs. phr. (old colloquial).—An instigator; a prompter.

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  1601.  SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII., i. 2, 24.

                        They vent reproaches
Most bitterly on you, as PUTTER-ON
Of these exactions.
    Ibid. (1604), Winter’s Tale, ii. 1, 140.
You are abus’d, and by some PUTTER-ON,
That will be damn’d for’t.

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