bear tamer
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.74 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Synonym of bearleader (“one who handles and keeps bears”).
Example Sentences
- "A ninth table was pro joculatoribus, proprie vor dy herolt, vor dy kokeler, in medio coenaculi—so that the court jesters, gypsies, beartamers, tight-rope walkers and jugglers could entertain the whole room with their arts and pranks."
- "The quiet academician was translating, but not transmuting, the gypsy beartamers who crossed the National Gardens; for the beartamers entered his poetry directly."
- "During the Sung dynasty the big cities had extensive entertainment quarters where the puppet theatre, marionettes, and shadow-plays could be found alongside acrobats and beartamers (Idema and Haft, 1985:199)."