woadster

Definitions

One who dyes with woad

historical, rare

Examples

“If you come⟳ across a man called Wadster you can be fairly sure that his ancestors were woadsters and dealt in blue dye.”

“As to the blue-dyeing, I think⟳ it would be certainly a very good think⟳ to get⟳ a woadster over; though you know⟳ the old books all say⟳ that the woad vat is not good for silk: I don't know⟳ why, unless perhaps that the lime is bad for it: still he might help⟳ us in setting a potash vat (Cuve-d-Inde).”

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