Crossword-Solution: WAISTER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Waister | n. | A seaman, usually a green hand or a broken-down man, stationed in the waist of a vessel of war. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| WAISTER | anagram | SWERTIA, WAITERS, WARIEST |
We have 3 clues for the answer “WAISTER”
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| sailor performing menial duties | 1 answer |
| bodice | 17 answers |
| Blouse | 20 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WAISTER (5)
They could not be got upon deck in the night, or if by dint of the rope's-end they were at length routed out of their hammocks, they immediately developed the worst symptoms of the "waister"--seasickness and fear of that which is high.
The “waister” had to do everything on board that was menial—swabbing, sweeping, and drudging generally.
Henry Waister, our Commissary on the occasion, was determined to make a good thing of his three Napoleons a-day; he had strained a point in procuring us a tolerable supper and breakfast at the two last stages, which must serve for some time to come; and as he would not pay for our dinner, the landlord would not let us have one, and there the matter rested.
Indeed he had never shown himself remarkable for either intellect or activity, and held no higher office in the ship than a waister.
They had charge of all the live stock, if the ship carried any, and he that was “good for nothing else” was “good enough for a waister.” Large ships generally carried about twice as many waisters as after-guard men.