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Waster

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly.
  2. 2
    A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil. obsolete

    "Or, as they that play at wasters exercise themselves by a few cudgels how to avoid an enemy's blows, let us arm ourselves against all such violent incursions which may invade our minds."

  3. 3
    a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to wordnet
  4. 4
    An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste. dialectal
  5. 5
    A leister; a spear for catching fish. Scotland, obsolete
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  1. 6
    someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently wordnet
  2. 7
    A destroyer or plunderer. obsolete

    "He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster."

  3. 8
    An item that is spoiled during its manufacture.

    "Unless the cast was very hot indeed, the steel would refuse to ascend, and a great many wasters were caused thereby."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English wastere, waister, wastar, wastour, equivalent to waste + -er. Compare Anglo-Norman wastur, Old French gastëor.

Etymology 2

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