repaster

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noun

One who takes a repast, or light meal.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

nounrepaster (plural repasters)

plural repasters

  1. obsoleteOne who takes a repast, or light meal.

    (2) That every repaster pay 2ᵈ ob the repast.

    1901, Gray's Inn, Reginald James Fletcher, The Pension Book of Gray's Inn, page 301
    2 more examples

    if any fellow of this house, being a commoner, or repaster, should, within the precincts of this house, wear any cloak, bootes and spurrs, or long hair, to pay for every offence 5s. for a fine, and also be put out of commons.

    1804, William Herbert, Antiquities of the Inns of court and chancery, page 311

    Order that "none of this company shall bring any repaster to the reader's drinking or dinner, the reader and stewards only excepted, upon pain of 10s.

    1896, Frederick Andrew Inderwick, Richard Arthur Roberts, A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records - Volume 1, page 239

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