Meaning

A saddle tree maker..

Definitions by Sense

1. A saddle tree maker.
2. To fret, whine, or complain.
3. To fuss; to meddle or micromanage.
4. To become marked with signs of age or decay.
5. (Ireland) To fumble; to work clumsily.

Example Sentences

There were the Fusters, not to be confused with Fusters who wove fustians ; the Sadler's Fusters made the wooden frame for saddles, which used to be much more elaborate affairs than our modern saddles are.

There were some leather-workers, as 4 or 5 curriers or tanners, 2 kissers, 6 or 7 saddlers or fusters.

It was the task of the fusters, or joiners, to make the wooden saddlebows while the painters were employed to decorate the completed saddles.

Nagle also remembers that Blaney 'didn't object to you telling him what one thought ... he didn't like fustering, that wouldn't please him, but he didn't mind you speaking your piece even if he might strongly disagree.

'This looks interesting,' I said, to my still-fustering-about-what-he should-do brother.

“Now, Vera. I said I'd pay for the hack, so you can just stop fustering about it.

Real hep, my people. Fustering mother. Meddling sisters

She cannot leave the fustering, festering middle-class world she finds herself in, to embrace her love in 'pagan' intuitiveness; what prevents her is her Christian conscience, which makes her aware of a reality beyond the wanton vacuity of the young lovers, Varvara and Kudrjáš.

Word Forms

• fusters
• fustering
• fustered

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