ewre

noun

1. (alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable)Obsolete form of ore.

   “[…] paying therfore … vnto the said Abbott & convent & their successours at the grownde wheare the said Leade ewre or cooles bee or shalbe dygged or gotten three loodes of Ewre of Coole or Leade at & of euery xxi loodes […]”

   “[…] the slagge of Iron to melt and purify Iron Ewre for which also Lyme and ashes of wood, and dust of char-coale, are used; and for small trialls, arsnicke, sulpher, vitriol, tartar, salt-gemme, salt-niter, and stybrum […]”

   “Wee are able to melt it w'th two fornises in the space of 40 weekes the quantitie of 560 tonne of ewre if wee might have it, and if the ewre be clean and well sorted the mor copper it will yeld.”

2. (alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable)Obsolete form of ewer.

   “Basyns and Ewres. First, 2 gilt basyns […] Itm, 4 ewres of siluer, with lyke tokens on the lyddes, […]”

   “[…] Candlesticks, Basons and Ewres, upon the high Altar, and ducking to them every time a man comes into the Church, or goes out, or stirs, […]”