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whitster Now local.|ˈhwɪtstə(r)|
Forms: 5 whytstar, wytstare, whystare, qwytstare, qwyster, quister, 6 whitstarre, 6– whitster.
[f. white v. + -ster. Cf. Du. witster ‘a Woman that whitens the walls’ (Sewel).]
1. A bleacher.
c1440Promp. Parv. 39/1 Bleystare, or wytstare (K. bleyster, H. bleyestare or qwytstare, P. bleykester or whytster), candidarius. 1530Palsgr. 288/2 Whitstarre, blanchisseur de toylles. 1594Plat Jewell-ho. ii. 58 The whitsters, and dutch laundresses. 1598Shakes. Merry W. iii. iii. 11 Take this basket..and carry it among the Whitsters in Dotchet Mead. 1667Pepys Diary 12 Aug., My wife and maids being gone over the water to the whitster's with their clothes. 1701J. Houghton Collect. Improv. Husb. No. 493 ⁋5 The Whitsters do use these Pot-Ashes, in the whitening of their Yarn and Cloth. 1881Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 72 Scourer, Bleacher:..French Cleaner, Whitster.
2. A whitesmith.
1823E. Moor Suffolk Wds.
Hence † ˈwhitstered |-əd| a., bleached.
1767Specif. Thos. Long's Patent No. 869 A ‘machine for printing..whitstered linen’. |