What do a TESTER, a TESTONE and a TESTERE have in common?
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This is English. Forget all thoughts of tests, testing, evaluation and the like. I hope I have managed to find a question here whose answer has yet to find its way into the ubiquitous and universal Internet.
So, there is an obvious common factor in the various meanings of these words – you have to identify it!
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This is English. Forget all thoughts of tests, testing, evaluation and the like. I hope I have managed to find a question here whose answer has yet to find its way into the ubiquitous and universal Internet.
So, there is an obvious common factor in the various meanings of these words – you have to identify it!
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The only common factor I can see is that all are metallic.
“Testone” was the name for an English shilling (in Henry VIII’s time) but was later also applied to a sixpenny piece. The more common name for the sixpence was later “tester”. Both the shilling and sixpence of the time were made of silver.
A “testere” was a piece of armour beaten out of iron plate to closely match the profile of the front of a horse’s head (beaten prior to it being put on the horse, that is).
Needless to say, the words are no longer in use. The sixpenny piece was not minted after 1971 (with the decimalisation British coinage, when it would have been worth two-and-a-half new pence) and even my great-great-grandfather couldn’t recall ever having seen a horse being ridden around with armour on its face.
Sorry, I know of no reference for any of this, you will just have to take my word for it.