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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who pronounces doom or judgment; in Scotland, formerly, the public executioner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Scot. Same as dempster.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Someone who predicts doom
  • noun Scotland, archaic A judge; a deemster.

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doom +‎ -ster

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