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▪ I. † ˈchester1 Obs. (exc. in comb.).
[OE. ceaster:— *c⊇æster:— *cæster:— prehist. OE. *cæstra (5–6th c.) fem., a. L. castra pl. neuter, ‘camp’, often applied to places in Britain which had been originally Roman encampments. (For the phonology, cf. Sievers Ags. Gram. 1886, §75. 1.) This is one of the best ascertained of the Latin words adopted by the Angles and Saxons during the conquest of Britain. Still existing as the proper name, or part of the name, of many places. In Cumbria, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and some counties south of these, it appears as -caster, without palatalization. The history of the form written -cester, of which only -ster is pronounced (in Worcester, Bicester, etc.), is obscure; the written form is perhaps of Fr. or med.L. origin.]
A city or walled town; orig. one that had been a Roman station in Britain.
a855O.E. Chron. an. 491 ælla and Cissa ymbsæton ceaster. c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. ii. 23 He com..& eardode on þære ceastre. c1160Hatton G. ibid., On þare chestre. c1200Ormin 8439 Þatt chesstre þatt te Laferrd Crist Comm till. [1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 377 Chester, denoted a walled or fortified place, being the same both in woorde and weight that the Latine (Castrum) is.] 1881Freeman Subj. Lands Venice 146 It was a chester ready made, with its four streets, its four gates.
▪ II. † ˈchester2 Obs.—0
[f. chest v. + -er1.]
One who puts a corpse into a coffin.
1552Huloet, Chester of a deade corps..pollinctor. |