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单词 awaiter
释义 aˈwaiter ? Obs.
Also 4 awaitour, 4–6 awayter.
[a. AF. *awaitour (= OF. aguaiteor, aguetteur), f. awaitier: see await v. and -er1.]
1. One who lies in wait. Obs.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iv. iii. 121 Yif he be a preue awaitour.1548Udall etc. Erasm. Par. Luke xx. 20 The subtile awaiters to haue taken him in a trippe.
2. An attendant. Obs.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. clxxx. (1495) 721 A vynyerde is lefte in wynter wythout keper or awayter.1543Grafton Contn. Harding 595 The kynges awayters were in coates of whyte and grene.
3. One who awaits or waits for.
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