Noun: fuster
| Singular | fuster |
| Plural | fusters |
Sample Sentences
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There were the Fusters, not to be confused with Fusters who wove fustians ; the Sadler's Fusters made the wooden frame for saddles, which used to be much more elaborate affairs than our modern saddles are. [1924, Proceedings and Reports of the Belfast Natural History and Philisophical society, page 65:]
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There were some leather-workers, as 4 or 5 curriers or tanners, 2 kissers, 6 or 7 saddlers or fusters. [1951, Eilert Ekwall, Two early London subsidy rolls, page 86:]
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It was the task of the fusters, or joiners, to make the wooden saddlebows while the painters were employed to decorate the completed saddles. [1995, Kingsley M. Oliver, Hold fast, sit sure: the history of the Worshipful Company of Saddlers of the City of London 1160-1960, page 18:]
Nouns inflected like fuster
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English fuster, fuystour, fuystor, from Anglo-Norman fuster, Old French fuyster, fust, ultimately from Latin fūstis. Compare French fût, Old French fustier. See: Middle English Nouns '
fuster', Latin Nouns '
fūstis', French Nouns '
fût'.