litster

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Archived revision by WingerBot (talk | contribs) as of 14:25, 1 October 2019.
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

Etymology

From Middle English litestere, from liten (to dye) + -stere (see -ster).[1]

Noun

litster (plural litsters)

  1. (archaic, UK, Scotland) A dyer.
    • 1995, Richard H. Saunders, John Smibert: Colonial America's First Portrait Painter, Yale University Press (1995), →ISBN, pages 1-2:
      But it was the woolen industry that provided the elder Smibert with a livelihood, for as a litster he spent his days dyeing wool, which was then woven into cloth.
    • 2002, Margaret H. B. Sanderson, A Kindly Place?: Living in Sixteenth-Century Scotland, Tuckwell Press (2002), →ISBN, page 122:
      Other women ran businesses that required reliance on a network of suppliers, sometimes of raw materials. Isobel Provand in the Canongate was a litster.
    • 2008, Shona Maclean, The Redemption of Alexander Seaton, Penguin Canada (2010), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
      The smell of the tanners' and the litsters' work still hung in the night air, although they had long since gone to their weary beds.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:litster.

References

  1. ^ "litster" on merriam-webster.com

Anagrams