Aim-crier

An abettor, one who encourages. In archery, the person employed to “cry aim.” (See above.)

“Thou smiling aim-crier at princesʹ fall.”

English Arcadia.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.