woadster
woadster noun: one who dyes with woad.
Noun
woadster (plural woadsters)
- One who dyes with woad
- If you come across a man called Wadster you can be fairly sure that his ancestors were woadsters and dealt in blue dye.1979, Corliss Lamont, John Mansfield, Letters to Florence Lamont, page 170
- As to the blue-dyeing, I think it would be certainly a very good think to get a woadster over; though you know the old books all say that the woad vat is not good for silk: I don't know why, unless perhaps that the lime is bad for it: still he might help us in setting a potash vat (Cuve-d-Inde).2014, original letter: 1877, William Morris, Norman Kelvin, The Collected Letters of William Morris, volume 1, page 395
Forms of woadster
| plural | woadsters |
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Origin of woadster
From Middle English wodester, equivalent to woad (“to dye with woad”) + -ster.
Questions about woadster
- What does woadster mean?
- Woadster means one who dyes with woad.
- What part of speech is woadster?
- Woadster is a noun.
- What is the plural of woadster?
- The plural of woadster is woadsters.
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