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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Waiter

Wait′er (·ẽr), n. 1. One who, or that which, waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance, esp. at table.

The waiters stand in ranks; the yeomen cry, "Make room," as if a duke were passing by. Swift.

2. A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver.

Coast waiter. See under Coast, n.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.