royster

English

Verb

royster (third-person singular simple present roysters, present participle roystering, simple past and past participle roystered)

1. Obsolete spelling of roister.
   • 1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter XI, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC:

     The only son of his father, an honest man, and a quiet man, not a roystering drunken robber!

Noun

royster (plural roysters)

1. Obsolete spelling of roister.
   • 1819 June 23, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Rip Van Winkle”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number I, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 77:

     He now suspected that the grave roysters of the mountain had put a trick on him, and having dosed him with liquor, had robbed him of his gun.

Anagrams

• Troyers