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repaster

noun

Etymology

From repast + -er.

  1. derived from *peh₂-✻ — “to protect; to shepherd”
  2. derived from re-
  3. derived from repastus — “meal”
  4. derived from repas — “meal, repast; spiritual nourishment”
  5. derived from repast
  6. inherited from repast
  7. formed as repaster — “repast + -er”

Definitions

  1. One who takes a repast, or light meal.

    • if any fellow of this house, being a commoner, or repaster, should, within the precincts of this house, wear any cloak, bootes and spurrs, or long hair, to pay for every offence 5s. for a fine, and also be put out of commons.
    • Order that "none of this company shall bring any repaster to the reader's drinking or dinner, the reader and stewards only excepted, upon pain of 10s.
    • (2) That every repaster pay 2ᵈ ob the repast.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for repaster. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA