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regrator

regrator [ME, OF regratour; ME, AN regrater] 1 one who buys goods (esp. foodstuffs, in quot. occ. illegally or in contravention of regulations) in order to resell in same market or locale at a higher price, regrater. b (spec. at Oxford; cf.MunAxOx 38n. 5, StatOx 106; cf. et. regere 80). 1279 quod omnes ~ores possunt emere vitulos, porcellos, multones vivos, et vendere coctos et non crudos, nec uxores carnificum qui regratum tenent carnes non vendant crudas Rec. Leic. I 180; 1357 hujusmodi emptoribus qui ~ores communiter appellantur Pat 166 m. 6; 1419 quod nullus ~or vendat ‥ victualia ante horam prime. item quod nullus bladerius nec ~ores ‥ victualium exeant civitatem ad emenda aliqua victualia MGL I 250.  b 1278 de numero regentium [v. l. regratorum] MunAcOx 38 (cf. StatOx 106: regratariorum); 1290 quod non liceat aliquibus ~oribus [vv. ll. regratatoribus, regretatoribus] aliqua victualia ‥ emere ante horam nonam MunAcOx 49; 1356 clamant habere ‥ punicionem forstallatorum, et ~orum, et omnium venditorum vel emptorum victualium ‥ contra privilegia universitatis MunAcOx 174; 1428 dicunt quod J. H. est communis ~or correorum DocCOx 180. 2 grocer, victualler. 1359 de qualibet fenestra sutorum, regrectorum, fabrorum, cissorum, pellipariorum, percamniorum, et aliorum hujusmodi, quadrantem in septimana Doc. Bev. 2.

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