lardiner

Inherited from Middle English lardener, from Anglo-Norman lardiner, modification of larder (“larder”) after gardiner (“gardener”). Compare obsolete Scots laidner (“larder”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑːdɪnə/, /ˈlɑːdnə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑɹdənɚ/

lardiner (plural lardiners)

1. (now historical) An officer originally charged with overseeing a larder, but who later became a sinecurist.
   • 1610, William Camden, “Northfolke”, in Philémon Holland, transl., Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, , London: Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, →OCLC, page 473:

     A little from hence is Sculton, otherwiſe called Burdos, or Burdelois, which was held by this tenure, that the Lord thereof on the Coronation daie of the Kings of England, ſhould bee chiefe Lardiner.

   • 1820, “Book IV”, in Arthur Taylor, The Glory of Regality: An Historical Treatise of the Anointing and Crowning of the Kings and Queens of England‎, London: Payne and Foss, page 130:

     […] and therefore that the sergeanty of Easton is to be regarded rather as assistant to that of Scoulton than as partaking of the same rank , that of the chief lardiner of England.

   • 2016 November 11, “Land and Economic Development among the Gentry”, in Hugh M. Thomas, Vassals, Heiresses, Crusaders, and Thugs: The Gentry of Angevin Yorkshire, 1154-1216‎, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 101:

     Indeed, the street called Davygate takes its name from the fact that David Lardiner, the king's lardiner in York but also a knight, lived there and held land in the area.

lardiner

1. Alternative form of lardener