Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun   An old spelling of tester .
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Examples
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								[2.3] A teaster is the canopy and its supports over a bed. 
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								You've already screwed up most of the movies, you give us a teaster trailer 5 months late, and now you move the 6th movie almost a year. Harry Potter Delay Evokes Angry Outbursts Amongst Fans « FirstShowing.net 2008 
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								The much anticipated Batman Begins teaster trailer is now online at the official site www. batmanbegins.com 
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								The much anticipated Batman Begins teaster trailer is now online at the official site www. batmanbegins.com 
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								It had high teaster posts with slats running across on which red curtains were hung. Two Years in the Forbidden City Princess Der Ling 1915 
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								It had high teaster posts with slats running across on which red curtains were hung. 
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								Mrs. Brown, too, must have risen on the wrong side of her teaster, so testy is she this morning -- thanking her stars that Twelfth-day has arrived, to put an end to the Christmas miseries! Christmas Comes but Once A Year Showing What Mr. Brown Did, Thought, and Intended to Do, during that Festive Season. John Leighton 1867 
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								If thou shouldst hear that thy fellow Will. is taken dead out of some horse-pond, and Dorcas cut down from her bed's teaster, from dangling in her own garters, be not surprised. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 Samuel Richardson 1725 
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								If thou shouldst hear that thy fellow Will. is taken dead out of some horse-pond, and Dorcas cut down from her bed’s teaster, from dangling in her own garters, be not surprised. Clarissa Harlowe 2006 
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								I’m a living soul — I’se wager a teaster, the foul fiend has left the seaman, and got into Gilbert, that he has — when a has passed through an ass and a horse, I’se marvel what beast a will get into next.” 
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