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English
Etymology
From waist + -er.
Noun
waister (plural waisters)
- (nautical, military, historical) A seaman stationed in the waist of a warship.
1905, John Masefield, Sea Life in Nelson's Time, page 129:The largest division of a ship's company, and the most ignoble, was that of the waisters, the men stationed in the waist, the men " without art or judgment," who hauled aft the fore and main sheets, and kept the decks white.
Translations
a seaman stationed in the waist
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Middle English
Noun
waister
- Alternative form of wastour