MERCER

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• MERCER (noun)
  The noun MERCER has 2 senses:

1. a dealer in textiles (especially silks)

2. British maker of printed calico cloth who invented mercerizing (1791-1866)

  Familiarity information: MERCER used as a noun is rare.

• MERCER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dealer in textiles (especially silks)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("mercer" is a kind of...):

bargainer; dealer; monger; trader (someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Sense 2

Meaning:

British maker of printed calico cloth who invented mercerizing (1791-1866)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

John Mercer; Mercer

Instance hypernyms:

manufacturer; producer (someone who manufactures something)

Derivation:

mercerize (treat to strengthen and improve the luster)

 Context examples 

“Nay, my fair lord,” said Alleyne, “these are not horses and a squire, but mules and a varlet. The man is a mercer, for he hath a great bundle beside him.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He’s got two of the warders and Mercer, the second mate, and he’d get the captain himself, if he thought him worth it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Let them be, and they will think that we are a wine-ship for Gascony, or that we bear the wool-bales of some mercer of the Staple.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)