measter

Ha ha, my measter is a canny Newcassel shopkeeper, on t 'Side.

Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

Ha ha, my measter is a canny Newcassel shopkeeper, on t 'Side.

Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

But he means well, and if you send him on an errand will run off to find 'measter' as fast as his short stature will allow.

Hodge and His Masters Richard Jefferies 1867

All the time he was engaged in taking off the skin, Jacob was anticipating the feast that we were to have; and the good fellow chuckled with delight when he hung the carcass quite close to the kitchen door, that his "measter" might run against it when he came home at night.

Roughing It in the Bush 1852

All the time he was engaged in taking off the skin, Jacob was anticipating the feast that we were to have; and the good fellow chuckled with delight when he hung the carcass quite close to the kitchen door, that his "measter" might run against it when he came home at night.

Life in the Backwoods Susanna Moodie 1844

All the time he was engaged in taking off the skin, Jacob was anticipating the feast that we were to have; and the good fellow chuckled with delight when he hung the carcass quite close to the kitchen door, that his "measter" might run against it when he came home at night.

Roughing It in the Bush Susanna Moodie 1844

Eh! but t 'measter' ll be fine and vexed at your comin 'when he's away.

Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

Eh! but t 'measter' ll be fine and vexed at your comin 'when he's away.

Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

Timothy Crabshaw will never eat the bread of unthankfulness — it shall never be said of him, that he was wiser than his measter.

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

“That measter had ordered him to go a different way, and that he should lose his place if he went any other than that he was ordered.”

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004