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▪ I. beatster1 local.|ˈbiːtstə(r)|
Also beetster.
[f. beet v. 1 + -ster.]
A mender or mounter of fishing-nets. (Sense of 1575 quot. uncertain.)
1575Aldeburgh Rec. in N. & Q. (1920) VII. 226/2 To iiiior poore foulks for carienge y⊇ beetster to hir buryall..viiid. 1641S. Smith Herring-Busse Trade 4 For the Tanning and Beetsters work. 1808Norfolk Tour (ed. 6) 43 This fishery gives bread..to about 2,000 fishermen, and 4,000 braiders, beetsters, towers, rivers, ferry-men [etc.]. 1858N. & Q. V. 116/1 Modern terms, such as one..hears among the fishermen of this coast [e.g. Beatsters, i.e. net menders (females)]. 1866J. G. Nall Great Yarmouth & Lowestoft 292 In a long loft adjoining that of the ransackers, is the work-room of the beetsters, women and girls engaged in betting or mending up the nets. 1920N. & Q. VII. 267/2 A notice-board at Lowestoft..‘2 Beatsters wanted’. 1921Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §398 Beatster, beetster; fishing net mender, net mender, net repairer,..sometimes also a net mounter. 1932Daily Mail 22 Sept. 4/6 Beatsters on the drift nets—stabbing their needles through a myriad meshes with rhythm.
▪ II. beatster2
see beat generation. |