dyestern.
/ˈdʌɪstə/, U.S. /ˈdaɪstər/, Scottish English /ˈdaɪstər/ Now Scottish. archaic.
= dyer n.
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a1350 Childh. Jesus 1158 (Mätz.) He cam to a diestare, And seide he couþe of his mestere, Þis diestere with oute blame Of þis hadde game.
1497 Will of John Thomlynson (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/11) f. 140 I John Thomlynson of Coventry, Deyster.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 173 That dyester's pole is good enough for the homicide.
1857 A. Jeffrey Hist. Roxburghshire II. iii. 120 In 1736 Robert Dick, a dyester, was summoned.
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