hanaster

English

Noun

hanaster (plural hanasters)

1. (UK, historical) A person paying the entrance fee of the guild merchant, and admitted as a freeman of the city of Oxford.
   • 1920, H. E. Salter, Munimenta Civitatis Oxonie, volume 71, page xxviii:

     No trade gild might be started without the consent of the whole body of hanasters, who would insist that the regulations were not harmful to the burgesses as a whole; […]

Alternate forms

• hanster

Anagrams

• Earthans