whitster

English

Etymology

Contracted from whitester.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɪtstə(ɹ)/, /ˈhwɪtstə(ɹ)/

Noun

whitster (plural whitsters)

1. (obsolete) A whitener; a bleacher; a whitester.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

     the whitsters in Datchet mead

See also

• whityer

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “whitster”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• whitrets, whitters