different between sewster vs sester

English

Alternative forms

• shooster (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English sewstare, sowstare, sewestre, sowestre, equivalent to sew +? -ster. Compare seamster, spinster.

Noun

sewster (plural sewsters)

1. (archaic or dialectal) A seamstress.
   • 1641, Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd

     At every twisted thrid my rock let fly Unto the sewster

   • 1816, The Gentleman's magazine (London, England) - Volume 120 - Page 231:

     This Letter mentions that portraits of Cromwell, Lockhart, and Mr. Sewster, were then in the possession of Mr. Gosling, of Wistow, near Ramsey, in Huntingdonshire, whose Grandfather married a Sewster.

   • 2004, Peter Lake, Moderate Puritans And The Elizabethan Church:

     […] and not of men only but of women and the same not only learned but labouring men, sewsters, servants, and handmaids.

   • 2010, Gary Taylor, John Lavagnino, MacDonald P. Jackson, Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works - Page 316:

     Bound with strong cord! A sewster's thread, i'faith, had been enough [...]

Anagrams

• Westers, stewers, westers

English

Noun

sester (plural sesters)

1. (historical) A liquid measure for honey and wine, between 24 and 32 ounces.
2. (historical) A dry measure for grain, perhaps equal to 12 bushels.

References

• Domesday Book: A Complete Transliteration. London: Penguin, 2003. ?ISBN p.511

Anagrams

• Resets, Setser, Steers, esters, estres, reests, resets, serest, seters, steers, steres, treses