webstern.¹

Brit.

/ˈwɛbstə/, U.S.

/ˈwɛbstər/

Forms: Old English webbestre, Middle English webbester, Middle English webester, Middle English webestere, Middle English webister, Middle English webstar, Middle English webstare, Middle English webstere, Middle English webstour, Middle English– webster, 1500s wyebster; Scottish pre-1700 vabstar, pre-1700 vabster, pre-1700 vebstar, pre-1700 vebsteir, pre-1700 vebster, pre-1700 vobstair, pre-1700 vobstar, pre-1700 vobster, pre-1700 voibster, pre-1700 wabster, pre-1700 webister, pre-1700 webstar, pre-1700 webstor, pre-1700 wobistar, pre-1700 wobstair, pre-1700 wobstar, pre-1700 wobstare, pre-1700 wobstir, pre-1700 wobstour, pre-1700 1700s 1900s webster, pre-1700 1700s 1900s wobster, pre-1700 1700s– wabster, 1800s wibster, 1800s wybister.

Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: web n., -ster suffix.

Etymology: Probably < web n. + -ster suffix, perhaps after webbe n. Compare (with different first element: see weave v.¹) North Frisian (Insular and Mainland: Moringer) weevster male weaver, (Mainland) wääwster male or female weaver, Middle Dutch wevester female weaver (Dutch weefster ). Compare webber n.Alternatively, it is possible that this word reflects an earlier formation < an ablaut variant (o -grade) of the Germanic base of weave v.¹ (compare web n. and webbe n.) + the Germanic base of -ster suffix, but the lack of direct cognates taken together with the (relatively) late attestation argue against this interpretation, as does the existence in Old English of the synonymous webbe n. (apparently inherited from Germanic). The word is used from an early date to denote weavers of either sex. Although in Old English attested only as a gloss translating classical Latin textrix , a feminine agent noun (see -trix suffix and compare textor textour n.), it is not certain that this reflects a consistent distinction between words denoting male and female weavers in Old English. In uses as an occupational surname, the word is attested earliest and most frequently with reference to men (which would be the expected distribution for a formally gender-neutral word at that period).

†1. A female weaver. Obsolete.

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websterOE

webbe1247

weaveress1723

OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 128 Textor, webba. Textrix, webbestre.

1316 in G. Fransson Middle Eng. Surnames (1935) 88 (MED) Agnes the Webester.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 1525 Scho was þe formest webster [Trin. Cambr. web] þat man findes o þat mister.

?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 795/8 Hec textrix, a webster.

2. A male weaver; (generally) a weaver, irrespective of gender. Now chiefly historical.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > one who > male

webbeOE

webster1252

1252 Patent Roll, 36 Henry III 21 Sept. (P.R.O.: C 66/63) m. 2 Willelmus filius Johannis le Webester'.

1379 in Yorks. Archæol. Jrnl. (1879) 5 14/2 Thomas Webester.., Webester, vj.d.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 1 Kings xvii. 7 Þe schafte of his spere was as þe bem of websteris.

c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. Prol. l. 99 Wollene websteris [B text c1400 Laud 581 Wollewebsteres; C text c1400 Huntington HM 137 Webbesters] and weueris of lynen.

1467 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 383 Spynners, websters, dyers, shermen, and other laborers or artificers apperteynynge to the same [i.e. cloth-making].

1531 in J. B. Paul & J. M. Thomson Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1883) III. 219/2 The best and worthiest of the haile craft of the wobstaris within the burgh.

1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 9^v Sell webster thy wull.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 626 The wooll of Istria and Liburnia, which if it were not for the spinning in Portugall, and the web-sters Art thereupon, it were no better for cloth then haire.

1638 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1905) II. 170 I, Richard Umpelbie of Linelandes, wollan webster.

a1733 in T. Gifford Hist. Descr. Zetland (1786) 83 That the ell called the Websters ell be 3 feet 4 inches, or 40 inches long, on which only unscored cloth is measured.

1792 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum IV. 389 Willie was a wabster gude, Cou'd stown a clue wi' ony bodie.

1841 T. P. Thompson Let. 7 Jan. in Exercises (1842) VI. 12 Is it likely that it is only because the websters and hosiers do not set about it themselves?

1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xv. 167 Tod was a wabster to his trade.

1939 Archit. Rev. 85 185/2 I found last summer a weaver (or a wabster, which is the correct Scottish title) who weaves by hand the kilts for the Royal Family.

1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 26 While the women spun..the men were the websters.

2001 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 14 Dec. 19 I am a great-great-grandson of a Kilmarnock wabster—weaver.

Compounds

†C1. attributive with the sense ‘of or used by a webster’. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1334–5 in M. Bateson Rec. Borough Leicester (1901) II. 17 Webstere bem.

1557 in A. J. Warden Dundee Burgh Laws (1872) 519 Thyre ar the names off the bredern of vebster craft.

1652 Edinb. Test. LXVI. 28 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Wobstar Tua wobster lomes estimat bothe to xv lib.

1672 Kirkcudbright Town Council Rec. 28 Feb. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) The said James Camle taks the said Johne Thomsone..as prenteis to him in the webster tred.

†C2. Appositive. Obsolete.With wobster gwmis ‘webster men’ in quot. a1568 cf. gome n.¹ 1.

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a1568 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlviii. 399 A weid..Weill wrocht in the lwmis with wobster gwmis.

1721 A. Ramsay Poems I. 295 A crishy Webster Loun.

1786 R. Burns Holy Fair ix, in Poems 45 An' there, a batch o' Wabster lads, Blackguarding frae Kxxxxxxxck [= Kilmarnock].

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xiii. 276 A puir wabster body.

1888 C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. 225 Good webster-wives weave in white borders made of their sheep's wool.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Webstern.²

Brit.

/ˈwɛbstə/, U.S.

/ˈwɛbstər/

Forms:

α. 1800s– Webster.

β. 1800s– Webster's.

Origin: From proper names. Etymon: proper name Webster.

Etymology: In α. forms < the name of Noah Webster (1758–1843), pioneering U.S. lexicographer. In β. forms < the genitive of the name of Noah Webster. Compare earlier Websterian adj.²

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language; an edition or abridgement of this work.Webster's dictionary was first published in 1828 and provided the first comprehensive coverage of American usage.

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the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > lexicography > [noun] > dictionary > specific dictionaries

alveary1574

gradusa1764

Webster1833

unabridged1860

OED1898

Oxford1927

Fowler1931

1833 Penny Cycl. I. 449/1 The verb rent has double meaning in Webster of granting on lease, as a proprietor does, and taking on lease as a tenant does.

1861 Sat. Rev. 12 432/2 The word may not be found in Richardson or Webster, or, indeed, anywhere within the pale of lexicon orthodoxy.

1950 W. Stevens Let. 21 Nov. (1967) 699 I look it up either at the office, where we have a Webster, or have someone look it up for me in the State library, where there is an Oxford.

1991 New Republic 10 June 39/2 She looks the word up in Webster's.

2007 S. Lerer Inventing Eng. xiv. 201 The Dictionary of American Regional English offers up a veritable essay on identity, beginning with the word's emergence in Webster.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	webster
释义	webstern.¹ Brit. /ˈwɛbstə/, U.S. /ˈwɛbstər/ Forms: Old English webbestre, Middle English webbester, Middle English webester, Middle English webestere, Middle English webister, Middle English webstar, Middle English webstare, Middle English webstere, Middle English webstour, Middle English– webster, 1500s wyebster; Scottish pre-1700 vabstar, pre-1700 vabster, pre-1700 vebstar, pre-1700 vebsteir, pre-1700 vebster, pre-1700 vobstair, pre-1700 vobstar, pre-1700 vobster, pre-1700 voibster, pre-1700 wabster, pre-1700 webister, pre-1700 webstar, pre-1700 webstor, pre-1700 wobistar, pre-1700 wobstair, pre-1700 wobstar, pre-1700 wobstare, pre-1700 wobstir, pre-1700 wobstour, pre-1700 1700s 1900s webster, pre-1700 1700s 1900s wobster, pre-1700 1700s– wabster, 1800s wibster, 1800s wybister. Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: web n., -ster suffix. Etymology: Probably < web n. + -ster suffix, perhaps after webbe n. Compare (with different first element: see weave v.¹) North Frisian (Insular and Mainland: Moringer) weevster male weaver, (Mainland) wääwster male or female weaver, Middle Dutch wevester female weaver (Dutch weefster ). Compare webber n.Alternatively, it is possible that this word reflects an earlier formation < an ablaut variant (o -grade) of the Germanic base of weave v.¹ (compare web n. and webbe n.) + the Germanic base of -ster suffix, but the lack of direct cognates taken together with the (relatively) late attestation argue against this interpretation, as does the existence in Old English of the synonymous webbe n. (apparently inherited from Germanic). The word is used from an early date to denote weavers of either sex. Although in Old English attested only as a gloss translating classical Latin textrix , a feminine agent noun (see -trix suffix and compare textor textour n.), it is not certain that this reflects a consistent distinction between words denoting male and female weavers in Old English. In uses as an occupational surname, the word is attested earliest and most frequently with reference to men (which would be the expected distribution for a formally gender-neutral word at that period). †1. A female weaver. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > one who > female websterOE webbe1247 weaveress1723 OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 128 Textor, webba. Textrix, webbestre. 1316 in G. Fransson Middle Eng. Surnames (1935) 88 (MED) Agnes the Webester. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 1525 Scho was þe formest webster [Trin. Cambr. web] þat man findes o þat mister. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 795/8 Hec textrix, a webster. 2. A male weaver; (generally) a weaver, irrespective of gender. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > one who > male webbeOE webster1252 1252 Patent Roll, 36 Henry III 21 Sept. (P.R.O.: C 66/63) m. 2 Willelmus filius Johannis le Webester'. 1379 in Yorks. Archæol. Jrnl. (1879) 5 14/2 Thomas Webester.., Webester, vj.d. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 1 Kings xvii. 7 Þe schafte of his spere was as þe bem of websteris. c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. Prol. l. 99 Wollene websteris [B text c1400 Laud 581 Wollewebsteres; C text c1400 Huntington HM 137 Webbesters] and weueris of lynen. 1467 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 383 Spynners, websters, dyers, shermen, and other laborers or artificers apperteynynge to the same [i.e. cloth-making]. 1531 in J. B. Paul & J. M. Thomson Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1883) III. 219/2 The best and worthiest of the haile craft of the wobstaris within the burgh. 1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 9^v Sell webster thy wull. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 626 The wooll of Istria and Liburnia, which if it were not for the spinning in Portugall, and the web-sters Art thereupon, it were no better for cloth then haire. 1638 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1905) II. 170 I, Richard Umpelbie of Linelandes, wollan webster. a1733 in T. Gifford Hist. Descr. Zetland (1786) 83 That the ell called the Websters ell be 3 feet 4 inches, or 40 inches long, on which only unscored cloth is measured. 1792 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum IV. 389 Willie was a wabster gude, Cou'd stown a clue wi' ony bodie. 1841 T. P. Thompson Let. 7 Jan. in Exercises (1842) VI. 12 Is it likely that it is only because the websters and hosiers do not set about it themselves? 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xv. 167 Tod was a wabster to his trade. 1939 Archit. Rev. 85 185/2 I found last summer a weaver (or a wabster, which is the correct Scottish title) who weaves by hand the kilts for the Royal Family. 1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 26 While the women spun..the men were the websters. 2001 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 14 Dec. 19 I am a great-great-grandson of a Kilmarnock wabster—weaver. Compounds †C1. attributive with the sense ‘of or used by a webster’. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1334–5 in M. Bateson Rec. Borough Leicester (1901) II. 17 Webstere bem. 1557 in A. J. Warden Dundee Burgh Laws (1872) 519 Thyre ar the names off the bredern of vebster craft. 1652 Edinb. Test. LXVI. 28 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Wobstar Tua wobster lomes estimat bothe to xv lib. 1672 Kirkcudbright Town Council Rec. 28 Feb. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) The said James Camle taks the said Johne Thomsone..as prenteis to him in the webster tred. †C2. Appositive. Obsolete.With wobster gwmis ‘webster men’ in quot. a1568 cf. gome n.¹ 1. ΚΠ a1568 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlviii. 399 A weid..Weill wrocht in the lwmis with wobster gwmis. 1721 A. Ramsay Poems I. 295 A crishy Webster Loun. 1786 R. Burns Holy Fair ix, in Poems 45 An' there, a batch o' Wabster lads, Blackguarding frae Kxxxxxxxck [= Kilmarnock]. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xiii. 276 A puir wabster body. 1888 C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. 225 Good webster-wives weave in white borders made of their sheep's wool. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Webstern.² Brit. /ˈwɛbstə/, U.S. /ˈwɛbstər/ Forms: α. 1800s– Webster. β. 1800s– Webster's. Origin: From proper names. Etymon: proper name Webster. Etymology: In α. forms < the name of Noah Webster (1758–1843), pioneering U.S. lexicographer. In β. forms < the genitive of the name of Noah Webster. Compare earlier Websterian adj.² Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language; an edition or abridgement of this work.Webster's dictionary was first published in 1828 and provided the first comprehensive coverage of American usage. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > lexicography > [noun] > dictionary > specific dictionaries alveary1574 gradusa1764 Webster1833 unabridged1860 OED1898 Oxford1927 Fowler1931 1833 Penny Cycl. I. 449/1 The verb rent has double meaning in Webster of granting on lease, as a proprietor does, and taking on lease as a tenant does. 1861 Sat. Rev. 12 432/2 The word may not be found in Richardson or Webster, or, indeed, anywhere within the pale of lexicon orthodoxy. 1950 W. Stevens Let. 21 Nov. (1967) 699 I look it up either at the office, where we have a Webster, or have someone look it up for me in the State library, where there is an Oxford. 1991 New Republic 10 June 39/2 She looks the word up in Webster's. 2007 S. Lerer Inventing Eng. xiv. 201 The Dictionary of American Regional English offers up a veritable essay on identity, beginning with the word's emergence in Webster. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.¹OEn.²1833
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Compounds

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