单词 | waulkster |
释义 | waulkstern. Scottish in later use. Now historical. A person who fulls cloth. Cf. waulker n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > fulling > one who waulkereOE fullerOE waulkster1355 tucker1388 cloth-thicker?1518 thicker1520 waulk miller1753 plash-miller1822 1355 Coroner's Roll: Notts. (P.R.O. MS Just Itin 2/20) Johannis Mak' de Newerk' Walkester. 1599 in S. Ree Rec. Elgin (1908) II. 71 Johne Stewart, walkster, accusit for playing at the bowallis on the calsaye the tyme of the evenyng prayeris. 1624 in W. Cramond Church of Fordyce (1886) 12 Anent walkster es caryeres of ȝairne to Aberdeen..There cam vaksteris..and resauit cloth to be vakit. 1695 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1822) IX. 510/1 The whole nyne trades of this burgh..viz. primo the baxters..octavo the weavers et nono the waksters. 1721 in J. F. S. Gordon Chron. Keith (1880) 97 David Clerk, walkster at Keith. 1891 J. MacDonald Place Names Strathbogie 248 It is unfortunate that we have no information about the trades in Kinnoir, except that there were 18 ‘tradesmen’, 4 millers, and 1 walkster. 1911 A. Warrack Scots Dial. Dict. Waukster, a fuller. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1355 |
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