royster
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[edit]Verb
[edit]royster (third-person singular simple present roysters, present participle roystering, simple past and past participle roystered)
Noun
[edit]royster (plural roysters)
- Obsolete spelling of roister.
- 1819 June 23, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Rip Van Winkle”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number I, New York, N.Y.: […] C. S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 77:
- He now suspected that the grave roysters of the mountain had put a trick on him, and having dosed him with liquor, had robbed him of his gun.