Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sheep-shearer.
- noun Same as
shepstare . - noun See
shapester .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A seamstress.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
seamstress .
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Examples
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Spinster is the only one of all her various womanly titles that survives; webster, shepster, litster, brewster, and baxter are obsolete.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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The occupations are also obsolete save those indicated by shepster and baxter -- that is, the cutting out of cloth and baking of bread; these are the only duties among them all that she still performs.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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