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† hackster Obs. exc. dial.
Also 7 hacster, haxter.
[f. hack v.1 + -ster.]
1. lit. One who hacks, a ‘hacker’ or ‘cutter’; a cut-throat; a swaggering ruffian, swashbuckler.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 247 b, If God were such a Royster or hackster that would delight in the slaughter of men. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 11 The hackster, that was hired and sent to kill Marius. 1631R. Brathwait Whimzies, Hospitall-man 45 To bring an old haxter to the exercise of devotion. 1649Milton Eikon. iii. (1851) 357 Happy times; when Braves and Hacksters..were thought the fittest..to defend his Person. 1658Cleveland Rustic Rampant Wks. (1687) 475. 1876 Whitby Gloss., Hackster, a murderer; a hewer down of others.
b. A prostitute's ‘bully’.
1607Chapman Bussy D'Ambois Plays 1873 II. 58 Thou would'st turne Hackster to any whore.
2. A prostitute. (Cf. hackney n. 4.)
1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 42 Out whore, strumpet, six penie hackster. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Danse, Elle sçait assez de la vieille danse..she hath bin a hackster, a twigger, a good one, in her time. |