crier

Etymology

From Middle English cryer, criour, from Old French crieor (Modern French crieur), derived from the verb crier. Synchronically analyzable as cry + -er.

noun

1. One who cries.
   Once again she had been stricken, beaten down, so violated that to give utterance to her feelings might have outshrilled all the criers in hell. 1967, Richard M. Elman, The 28th day of Elul, page 94
2. An officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation, such as a town crier.