roomer

adverb

No English definition recorded for this entry.

No English definition recorded for this entry.

Etymology: From room + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 2).

At a greater distance; farther off.
“The Captaine in a Shippe of warre, is a iollie fellowe, and thinketh himselfe a lyttle God, because hee speaketh prowdlie to the Souldiors, and maketh them quayle at the shaking of his lockes: […] If any be vnrulie, hee casteth him ouerboorde, or if any be fearefull, hee bindes him to the Maste: if hée crie aloofe, the Helmes man dares not goe roomer: and if hée bidde shoote, the gunner dares not but giue fyre.”
“1607, John Harington (translator), Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto, London: John Norton and Simon Waterson, Book 41, stanza 17, p. 343, Yet did the master by all meanes assay, To steare out roomer, or to keepe aloofe, Or at the least to strike sailes if they may, As in such danger was for their behoofe.”

Etymology: From room + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 2).

A person who rents a room.
“Near-synonyms: boarder, tenant”
“She took in two roomers to make ends meet.”
A residence having the specified number of rooms.
“one-roomer”
“four-roomer”