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dryster|ˈdraɪstə(r)|
[f. dry v.: see -ster.]
A workman or woman employed in drying something.
14..Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 692 Nomina artificium mulierum..Hec siccatrix, a dryster. 1483Cath. Angl. 109 A Dryster, dissicator, -trix. a1671Lamont Diary 180 (Jam.) Old Robert Baillie being dryster that day, and William Lundy..measter of the mille. 1825Jamieson, Dryster. 1. The person who has the charge of turning and drying the grain in a kiln. 2. One whose business is to dry cloth at a bleachfield. 1894H. Speight Nidderdale 384 note, Throwsters and drysters were potters' craftsmen. |