Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See whitester.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A whitener; a bleacher; a whitester.

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  • noun obsolete A whitener; a bleacher; a whitester.

Etymologies

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Contracted from whitester.

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Examples

  • The whitster meant what we should now call a dyer and cleaner.

    The King's Daughters Emily Sarah Holt 1864

  • Add to these ‘whitster’ (female bleacher, Shakespeare),

    English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

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