waister

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Etymology

From waist +‎ -er.

Noun

waister (plural waisters)

  1. (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.

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Noun

waister

  1. Alternative form of wastour