vauntmure, vaimure, vanmure

Fort.: The walk or gangway on the top of a wall behind the parapet. "With another engine, named the warwolfe, he pierced with one stone, and cut, as even as a thread, two vaunt mures."- Camden : Remains. *vaunt-parler, *vant-perl or, a . A spokesman. "The councell and aduise of vant - perlors , and such as, being aduanced from base degree vnto high author i tie." - Holinshed: Hist. Scotland (an. 1487). vâunt-ěr, *vâunt-our, s. [Eng. vaunt, v.;-er.] One who vaunts; a boaster, a braggart. "Some feign To menage steeds, as did this vaunter; but in vain." Spenser: F. Q., II. iv. 1. *vâunt-er-, *vânt-er-ỹ, s. [Eng. vaunt , v.; -ery . The act of vaunting or boasting; bravado. "This vantery and glorious boasting of a man's selfe." -P. Holland: Plutarch , p. 249.