windster
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English wyndster, windestre, equivalent to wind (verb) + -ster.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
windster (plural windsters)
- (historical) A person who winds wool, silk, thread, etc.
- 1789, The American museum or repository of ancient and modern fugitive pieces, prose and poetical, volume 5:
- Your windster must always have a bowl of cold water by her, to dip her fingers in, and to sprinkle very often the said bar, that the heat may not burn the thread.
- 1951, Series of Reprints of Scarce Works on Political Economy:
- Silk-winders or windsters easily became weavers.