Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Scotch form of
webster .
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Examples
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The "wabster," or weaving profession, seems to have stood very low in the estimation of proverb makers.
The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836
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Tod was a wabster to his trade; his loom stood in the but.
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Did ever ye hear tell, Mr. Mackellar, o Wully White the wabster?
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It was a grand thing for the Master o Ballntrae to tak up a feud wi a wabster, wasnaet?
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Ilay (for wherefore should they be hidden under a bushel?), but the like o 'thae grit men wadna mind the like o' me, a puir wabster body --- they think mair o 'wha says a thing, than o' what the thing is that's said.
Rob Roy 1887
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Tod was a wabster to his trade; his loom stood in the but.
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Tod was a wabster to his trade; his loom stood in the but.
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Gentlemen are unco scant when a wabster gets a lady.
The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836
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I have whiles thought o 'letting my lights burn before the Duke of Argyle, or his brother Lord Ilay (for wherefore should they be hidden under a bushel?), but the like o' thae grit men wadna mind the like o 'me, a puir wabster body -- they think mair o' wha says a thing, than o 'what the thing is that's said.
Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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I have whiles thought o 'letting my lights burn before the Duke of Argyle, or his brother Lord Ilay (for wherefore should they be hidden under a bushel?), but the like o' thae grit men wadna mind the like o 'me, a puir wabster body -- they think mair o' wha says a thing, than o 'what the thing is that's said.
Rob Roy — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801
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