"litster" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English litestere, from liten (“to dye”) (from Old Norse litr) + -stere (see -ster).",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1995, Richard H. Saunders, John Smibert: Colonial America's First Portrait Painter, Yale University Press, →ISBN, pages 1–2:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2002, Margaret H. B. Sanderson, A Kindly Place?: Living in Sixteenth-Century Scotland, Tuckwell Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 122:",
          "text": "Other women ran businesses that required reliance on a network of suppliers, sometimes of raw materials. Isobel Provand in the Canongate was a litster.",
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          "ref": "2008, Shona Maclean, The Redemption of Alexander Seaton, Penguin Canada, published 2010, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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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        "A dyer."
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        "(archaic, UK, Scotland) A dyer."
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          "ref": "1995, Richard H. Saunders, John Smibert: Colonial America's First Portrait Painter, Yale University Press, →ISBN, pages 1–2:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2002, Margaret H. B. Sanderson, A Kindly Place?: Living in Sixteenth-Century Scotland, Tuckwell Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 122:",
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