waister

English

Etymology

waist +‎ -er

Noun

waister (plural waisters)

  1. (nautical) A seaman stationed in the waist of a warship.
    • 1905, John Masefield, Sea Life in Nelson's Time, page 129:
      The largest division of a ship's company, and the most ignoble, was that of the waisters, the men stationed in the waist, the men " without art or judgment," who hauled aft the fore and main sheets, and kept the decks white.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “waister”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Noun

waister

  1. Alternative form of wastour
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