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brewster1|ˈbruːstər|
Forms: 4 breuster, brewester(e, 5– brewster, 5 north. browstar, -stere, 6 Sc. broustar, -ster, browster.
[f. brew v. + fem. suffix -ster: cf. baxter. See also browster.]
1. orig. A woman that brews, a female brewer.
c1308Rel. Ant. II. 176 Hail be ȝe, brewesters, with ȝur galuns, Potels and quarters. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. v. 306 Beton þe brewestere bad hym good morwe. c1425Voc. in Wr-Wülcker 662 Hec brasiatrix, brewster. c1450Ibid. 692 Hec pandoxatrix, a brewster. 1820Scott Abbot xv, We will play..in Dame Martin the Brewster's barn-yard.
2. Extended to both sexes: A brewer. (Only north Eng. and Sc. since 15th c., exc. as in 3.)
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. Prol. 218 Baxsteres and brewesteres, and bocheres manye. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (1840) 211 Bakerys, browsterys, vyntenerys, with fressh lycour. c1440Promp. Parv. 54 Browstar or brewere, pandoxator, pandoxatrix. c1550Sir J. Balfour Practicks (1754) 15 Brouster, for his fie, five pundis. 1607North Riding Rec. (1883) I. 71 Fr. Steele brewster presented for selling ale contrary to the Statute.
3. Comb. and attrib. brewster-wife (Sc.), a woman that brews or sells malt liquors; brewster sessions, sessions for the issue of licenses to trade in alcoholic liquors.
a1774Fergusson Leith Races, The *Browster wives thegither harl A' trash that they can fa on. 1818Burt's Lett. N. Scotl. I. 323 Notes, A bad specimen of a Scotish brewster-wife. 1864A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock 128 The brewster-wives had formed a scheme for raising the price of ale.
1883Standard 7 Sept., At the Canterbury *Brewster-Sessions..all the licenses were granted except two. |