sewster

plural sewsters · alternative shooster

1. archaicdialectalA seamstress; a sewer (someone who sews).

   At every twisted thrid my rock let fly Unto the sewster

   1641, Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd

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   This Letter mentions that portraits of Cromwell, Lockhart, and Mr. Sewster, were then in the possession of Mr. Gosling, of Wistow, near Ramsey, in Huntingdonshire, whose Grandfather married a Sewster.

   1816, The Gentleman's magazine, volume 120, London, England, page 231

   […] and not of men only but of women and the same not only learned but labouring men, sewsters, servants, and handmaids.

   2004, Peter Lake, Moderate Puritans And The Elizabethan Church

   Bound with strong cord! A sewster's thread, i'faith, had been enough [...]

   2010, Gary Taylor, John Lavagnino, MacDonald P. Jackson, Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works - Page 316