dryster

1) An occupational term with –ster as the suffix, comparable with lister, webster, etc.

It was evidently used of workmen whose job it was to dry something, as grain in a kiln, but it is poorly documented: 1676 Robert Croft, dryster, of Brookfoot, Southowram. The Yorkshire historian Speight wrote that drysters were potters’ craftsmen, Nidderdale.

places Southowram
dates 1676

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