Definition of "handkercher"

handkercher

noun
plural handkerchers
1. Obsolete form of handkerchief.
  Quotations
  When your head did but ake,I knit my hand-kercher about your browes.
  c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene i]