waister

From waist +‎ -er.

waister (plural waisters)

1. (nautical, military, historical) A seaman stationed in the waist of a warship.
   • 1905, John Masefield, Sea Life in Nelson's Time, page 129:

     The largest division of a ship's company, and the most ignoble, was that of the waisters, the men stationed in the waist, the men " without art or judgment," who hauled aft the fore and main sheets, and kept the decks white.

• “waister”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Waiters, artwise, waiters, wariest, wastier

waister

1. alternative form of wastour