1. sumner - Noun
2. Sumner - Proper noun
A summoner.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhen you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said. William Devane
In that respect, and in that only, Charles Sumner was like him, but Sumner, in almost every other quality, was quite different from his three associates - altogether out of line. Henry Adams
He was thunderstruck to learn that Senator Sumner privately denounced the course, regarded Mr. Adams as betraying the principles of his life, and broke off relations with his family. Henry Adams
Sumner was the boy's ideal of greatness; the highest product of nature and art. The only fault of such a model was its superiority which defied imitation. Henry Adams
About the same time he revived the Sumner method of finding a ship's place at sea, and calculated a set of tables for its ready application. Source: Internet
Alfred McClung Lee, "The Forgotten Sumner," Journal of the History of Sociology 1980–1981 3(1): 87–106 Until 1887, the legal name of the university was "The President and Fellows of Yale College, in New Haven." Source: Internet