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Lister vs Litster - What's the difference?

lister | litster |

As a proper noun lister

is .

As a noun litster is

(archaic|uk|scotland) a dyer.

lister

English

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

* leister (fish spear)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, lists or produces a listing.
  • * 1984 , John C. Nash, Effective scientific problem solving with small computers (page 113)
    • A good program lister is helpful here, since many language processors allow multi-statement lines. For BASIC, FORTRAN, PASCAL, and similar languages, the lister can split multi-statement lines, ensure there are blanks between keywords
  • A person or organisation that creates or maintains lists.
    • Related terms
    * list * listing

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    litster

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic, UK, Scotland) A dyer.
  • * 1995 , Richard H. Saunders, John Smibert: Colonial America's First Portrait Painter , Yale University Press (1995), ISBN 0300042582, pages 1-2:
    • But it was the woolen industry that provided the elder Smibert with a livelihood, for as a litster he spent his days dyeing wool, which was then woven into cloth.
  • * 2002 , Margaret H. B. Sanderson, A Kindly Place?: Living in Sixteenth-Century Scotland , Tuckwell Press (2002), ISBN 9781862321694, page 122:
    • Other women ran businesses that required reliance on a network of suppliers, sometimes of raw materials. Isobel Provand in the Canongate was a litster .
  • * 2008 , Shona Maclean, The Redemption of Alexander Seaton , Penguin Canada (2010), ISBN 9780143170082, unnumbered page:
    • The smell of the tanners' and the litsters' work still hung in the night air, although they had long since gone to their weary beds.
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