"woadster" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1979, Corliss Lamont, John Mansfield, Letters to Florence Lamont, page 170",
          "text": "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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          "text": "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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