sewster

noun

sewster

noun

Etymology From Middle English sewstare, sowstare, sewestre, sowestre, equivalent to sew + -ster. Compare seamster, spinster.

1

Archaic, Dialectal A seamstress; a sewer (someone who sews).

At every twisted thrid my rock let fly Unto the sewster1641, Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd:
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:

2 more examples

[…] 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:

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