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plural summoners
One who summons or evokes, particularly in legal contexts. examples
(historical) An apparitor; An officer of an ecclesiastical court whose job it was to deliver a summons to an offending member of the diocese.
A small bell for summoning an employee to provide service. quotations examples
And as they change, they set into bright relief not only outmoded honorifics and hunting horns, but silver summoners and mother-of-pearl opera glasses and all manner of carefully crafted things that have outlived their usefulness.
2016, Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, page 119