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hanster

hanster is the alternative form of hanaster.

Meaning of hanaster

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.
    • 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; […]1920, H. E. Salter, Munimenta Civitatis Oxonie, volume 71, page xxviii

Forms of hanster

pluralhansters

Questions about hanster

What is hanster the alternative form of?
Hanster is the alternative form of hanaster.

Words near hanster in the dictionary

  1. Hansonmania
  2. hansons
  3. Hansonville
  4. Hansson
  5. Hanssons
  6. hanster
  7. Hanswurst
  8. Hanswursts
  9. hant
  10. Hant's Harbour
  11. Hantai

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