Grindster

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who grinds (all senses). rare

    "[…] casting her eyes upon him and judging him a better and lustier grindster than her then lover, of whom belike she was weary, determined to beseek him to gallant in the latter's stead."

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"[…] casting her eyes upon him and judging him a better and lustier grindster than her then lover, of whom belike she was weary, determined to beseek him to gallant in the latter's stead."

Etymology

From Middle English grindestere (“a miller, tool-sharpener”), equivalent to grind + -ster.

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