In the poem, the minstrel mourned the lost eres of the kingdom.

She left the cottage ere the dawn broke, leaving only a note on the table.

They left ere dawn broke, hoping to avoid the crowds.

In many words, adding -er to a verb turns it into someone who performs the action.

The old poet cupped his ere to catch the distant song of the sea.

ere the town awoke, he had slipped away without a sound.

In his paper on Old English morphology, he noted that the obsolete plural suffix -er once formed the plurals of a handful of nouns.

When you add -er to 'London', you form the word 'Londoner' to denote a resident of that city.

When friends teased him, they added -er to his nickname to make it sound cuter.

Linguists explain that adding -er to a verb or an onomatopoeic sound can convey the sense of doing it frequently.