maistry

English

Noun

maistry (countable and uncountable, plural maistries)

1. (obsolete) Mastery.
2. A foreman.
   • 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings:

     Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “Well, yes, of a kind. I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”

Anagrams

• symitar