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webster1 Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈwɛbstə(r)|
Forms: 2 webbestre, 4 web(b)ester, webister, 4–5 webstere, 5 webstar, 6 wyebster, 3– webster; Sc. 5–6 wobstar, 6–7 wobster, 6– wabster.
[OE. webbestre, fem. of webba weaver, webbe: see -ster.]
A weaver: a. as the designation of a woman.
c1100Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 188/11 Textrix, webbestre. a1300Cursor M. 1525 Scho was þe formest webster Þat man findes o þat mister. 1375Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 330 Anota Milner, Webster. c1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 795/8 Hec textrix, a webster.
b. extended, or applied spec., to a male weaver.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. Prol. 99 Wollene websteris [1377 B. Prol. 219 Wollewebsteres, 1393 C. i. 222 Webbesters] and weueris of lynen. 1379Poll-tax W. Riding in Yorks. Archæol. Jrnl. V. 14 Thomas Webester..Webester vj d. Ibid. 15 Johannes Clerke.., Webester vj d. 1382Wyclif 1 Sam. xvii. 7 The shaft of his speer was as the beem of websters. c1400Destr. Troy 1587 Wrightes, websters, walkers of clothe. c1440Promp. Parv. 519/1 Webstar (or weware), textor, textrix. 1467Ord. Worcester §17 in Eng. Gilds 383 Spynners, websters, dyers, shermen, and other laborers or artificers apperteynynge to the same [i.e. cloth-making]. 1525in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1530–1, 219/2 The best and worthiest of the haile craft of the wobstaris within the burgh. 1535Lyndesay Satyre 4106 Find me ane Wobster that is leill, Or ane Walker that will nocht steill. 1573–80Tusser Husb. (1878) 32 Sell webster thy wull. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 626 The wooll of Istria and Liburnia, which if it were not for the spinning in Portugall, and the web-sters Art thereupon, it were no better then haire. a1733Shetland Acts 16 in Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot. (1892) XXVI. 199 That the webster's ell be 3 feet 4 inches, or 40 inches long, on which only unscoured cloth is measured. 1792Burns ‘Willie Wastle dwelt on Tweed’ i, Willie was a wabster guid, Cou'd stown a clew wi' ony bodie. 1841Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) VI. 12 Is it likely that it is only because the websters and hosiers do not set about it themselves? 1847H. S. Riddell Poems 194 The wabsters weary at their looms, Maun still at them be thruming. 1892Stevenson Catriona xv, Tod was a wabster to his trade.
c. attrib., as webster beam, webster loom.
1334–5Leicester Borough Rec. (1901) II. 17 Webstere bem. 1599Lanc. & Cheshire Wills (Chetham Soc.) 152 Webster Lomes.
d. appositive.
a1568Satir. Poems Reform. xlviii. 43 A weid..Weill wrocht in the lwmis with wobster gwmis [see gome1]. 1721Ramsay Elegy on Patie Birnie xii, A crishy Webster Loun. 1785Burns Holy Fair ix, An' there, a batch o' wabster lads, Blackguarding frae Kilmarnock. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxvi. A puir wabster body. 1888Doughty Arabia Deserta I. 225 Good webster-wives weave in white borders made of their sheep's wool. |