单词 | awaiter |
释义 | aˈwaiter ? Obs. Also 4 awaitour, 4–6 awayter. [a. AF. *awaitour (= OF. aguaiteor, aguetteur), f. awaitier: see await v. and -er1.] †1. One who lies in wait. Obs.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iv. iii. 121 Yif he be a preue awaitour. 1548Udall etc. Erasm. Par. Luke xx. 20 The subtile awaiters to haue taken him in a trippe. †2. An attendant. Obs.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. clxxx. (1495) 721 A vynyerde is lefte in wynter wythout keper or awayter. 1543Grafton Contn. Harding 595 The kynges awayters were in coates of whyte and grene. 3. One who awaits or waits for. |

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