What does woadster mean?
Woadster means (rare, historical) One who dyes with woad.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare, historical) One who dyes with woad.
If you come across a man called Wadster you can be fairly sure that his ancestors were woadsters and dealt in blue dye.
As to the blue-dyeing, I think it would be certainly a very good think to get a woadster over; though you know the old books all say that the woad vat is not good for silk: I don't know why, unless perhaps that the lime is bad for it: still he might help us in setting a potash vat (Cuve-d-Inde).
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Woadster means (rare, historical) One who dyes with woad.
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If you come across a man called Wadster you can be fairly sure that his ancestors were woadsters and dealt in blue dye.
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