waisters

As the pounds returned over the next year, I reverted to low waisters - even if there is a danger of looking a bit like Coco the Clown for someone with legs as short as mine.

Battle of the Trousers Glyn Davies 2007

As the pounds returned over the next year, I reverted to low waisters - even if there is a danger of looking a bit like Coco the Clown for someone with legs as short as mine.

Archive 2007-12-01 Glyn Davies 2007

I wore the high waisters for a while, mainly because I lost so much weight that my hipsters wouldn't stay up.

Battle of the Trousers Glyn Davies 2007

I wore the high waisters for a while, mainly because I lost so much weight that my hipsters wouldn't stay up.

Archive 2007-12-01 Glyn Davies 2007

That meant that the pumps were at work three hours out of every four, so that even with petty officers and idlers and waisters and marines all doing their share, every hand was engaged on the toilsome labour for twelve hours a day.

Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

The forecastle-men, of course, come first, as they stand so in the lists by which they are mustered at night by the mate of the watch; then the foretop men, and so on to the gunners, after-guard, and waisters.

The Lieutenant and Commander Hall, Basil, 1788-1844 1862

From the part of the ship where they are stationed, they are called waisters.

Peter the Whaler William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Even the rawest of their numbers, the luckless waisters and after-guard, were apparently as confident of victory as those whose audacity might plead the apology of uniform and often repeated success.

The Red Rover James Fenimore Cooper 1820

The graver and heavier seamen of the forecastle, the still more important quarter-gunners and quarter-masters, the less instructed and half-startled waisters, and the raw and actually alarmed after-guard, all hurried, by a sort of instinct, to their several points; the more practised to plot mischief against their shipmates, and the less intelligent to concert their means of defence.

The Red Rover James Fenimore Cooper 1820

Blows had, in more than one instance, succeeded to angry words; and, as the former was a part of the sports in which the marines and waisters were on an equality with their more ingenious tormentors, the war was beginning to be waged with some appearances of a very doubtful success.

The Red Rover James Fenimore Cooper 1820