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rune-rister

rune-rister noun: a person skilled in carving or cutting runes.

Noun

rune-rister (plural rune-risters)

  1. A person skilled in carving or cutting runes.
    • But this was clearly there when the block was carved, for the Rune-rister has passed over this rough spot.1870, George Stephens, “Some Account of Scandinavian Runic Stones which speak of Knut the Great, King of all the North”, in Archaeologia, London: Society of Antiquaries of London, page 106
    • In all inscriptions upon teh monuments of Yu, in China, in Persia, Hindostan, in the Mezeneene of Indian tent-dwellers, and in the helveristninger and Scandinavian rune risters, prominently appear those figures of the sun and moon marking the mask of the Alaskan and engraved upon the tomb of the...1891, Ellen Russell Emerson, Masks, Heads, and Faces: With Some Considerations Respecting the Rise and Development of Art, Boston: Haughton, Mifflin & Co., page 168

Forms of rune-rister

pluralrune-risters

Questions about rune-rister

What does rune-rister mean?
Rune-rister means a person skilled in carving or cutting runes.
What part of speech is rune-rister?
Rune-rister is a noun.
What is the plural of rune-rister?
The plural of rune-rister is rune-risters.

Words near rune-rister in the dictionary

  1. rune cloths
  2. rune poem
  3. rune poems
  4. rune spread
  5. rune spreads
  6. rune-rister
  7. rune-risters
  8. rune-risting
  9. rune-ristings
  10. Runebergian
  11. runecarver

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