St Juster

Noun

St Juster (plural St Justers)

1. A native or inhabitant of St Just.
   • The seines have been shot before we come up. There are two of them, one owned by a company of St Justers, and worked by men “at wages;” the other, the original “covers’” or poor men’s seine.1874 September, “Pilchards and Pilchard-Catchers; or, How We Live in West Penwith”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CXVI, number DCCVII, Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons; London...
   • Disillusionment among emigrants was common, and homesickness inspired many jaundiced accounts about conditions in the New World. Nevertheless the complaints the St Justers made of being swindled out of their wages, of dishonest mine management, and other similar criticisms were so frequent that...1974, John Rowe, “Gold in them thar hills—perhaps”, in The Hard-Rock Men: Cornish Immigrants and the North American Mining Frontier, Liverpool, Merseyside: Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, page 233