Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for WAIT'ER
WAIT'ER, n.
- One who waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance. The waiters stand in ranks; the yeomen cry, / Make room, as if a duke were passing by. – Swift.
- A server or salver; a vessel on which tea furniture, &c. is carried.
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