was terとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 wastere, waister, wastar, wastour, equivalent to waste +‎ -er. Compare Anglo-Norman wastur, Old French gastëor.

名詞

waster (plural wasters)

1. Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:spendthrift

2. (dialectal) An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste.

   Synonym: thief

3. (obsolete) A destroyer or plunderer.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 18:9:

     He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

4. An item that is spoiled during its manufacture.
   • 1895, Richard Smith-Casson, “Small Cast Steel Ingots”, in Transactions of the Iron and Steel Institute, volume 46, page 215:

     Unless the cast was very hot indeed, the steel would refuse to ascend, and a great many wasters were caused thereby.

別の表記

• (destroyer): wastor, wastour

派生語

語源 2

Unknown

名詞

waster (plural wasters)

1. (obsolete, chiefly fencing) A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 6:

     Or, as they that play at wasters exercise themselves by a few cudgels how to avoid an enemy's blows, let us arm ourselves against all such violent incursions which may invade our minds.

2. (obsolete, Scotland) A leister; a spear for catching fish.

アナグラム

• Waters, Westra, rawest, tawers, waters