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单词 waulkster
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waulkstern.

Brit. /ˈwɔːkstə/, U.S. /ˈwɔkstər/, /ˈwɑkstər/, Scottish English /ˈwɔkstər/
Forms: Middle English walkester (northern and midlands), Middle English walkster (north-east midlands, as surname), 1900s– waulkster; Scottish pre-1700 vakster, pre-1700 wakster, pre-1700 1700s– walkster, 1900s– waukster, 1900s– waulkster.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: waulk v., -ster suffix.
Etymology: < waulk v. + -ster suffix. Compare earlier waulker n.Also attested early as a surname: Dionisius Walkster (1375), Johannes Walkester (1379), etc.
Scottish in later use. Now historical.
A person who fulls cloth. Cf. waulker n.
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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).
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