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单词 awaiter
释义

awaitern.

Forms: Also Middle English awaitour, Middle English–1500s awayter.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman *awaitour (= Old French aguaiteor , aguetteur ), < awaitier : see await v. and -er suffix1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: aˈwaiter.
? Obsolete.
1. One who lies in wait. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > hostile lying in wait > one who
awaiterc1374
waiterc1430
waylayer1565
lier1583
wait-layer1600
ambusher1606
ambuscader1677
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. iii. 121 Yif he be a preue awaitour.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xx. f. 20 The subtile awaiters to haue taken him in a trippe.
2. An attendant. Obsolete.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun]
thanea700
yeoman1345
squirec1380
foot followera1382
handservanta1382
servitora1382
ministera1384
servera1425
squire of (or for) the body (or household)1450
attender1461
waitera1483
awaiter1495
tender?a1505
waiting-man1518
satellite?1520
attendant1555
sitter-byc1555
pediseque1606
asseclist?1607
tendant1614
assecle1616
fewterera1625
escudero1631
peon1638
wait1652
under spur-leather1685
body servant1689
slavey1819
tindal1859
maid-attendant1896
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvii. clxxx. sig. V.vii/1 A vynyerde is besyly tylthed... And is lefte in wynter wythout keper or awayter [a1398 BL Add. wiþouten warde and waytynge].
1543 R. Grafton Contin. in Chron. J. Hardyng (longer ed.) f. cl The kynges awayters were in coates of whyte and grene.
3. One who awaits or waits for.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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