Definitions for listers

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listers list·er

Spelling: [lis-ter]

IPA: /ˈlɪs tər/

Listers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 193 anagrams from letters in listers (eilrsst).

Definitions for listers

noun

1. Also called lister plow, middlebreaker, middlebuster. a plow with a double moldboard, used to prepare the ground for planting by producing furrows and ridges.
2. Also called lister planter, lister drill. a lister plow fitted with attachments for dropping and covering seeds.
3. a person who makes or compiles a list, especially an appraiser or assessor.
4. Joseph, 1st Baron Lister of Lyme Regis [lahym ree-jis] /laɪm ˈri dʒɪs/ (Show IPA), 1827–1912, English surgeon: founder of modern antiseptic surgery.
5. a border or bordering strip, usually of cloth.
6. a selvage.
7. selvages collectively.
8. a strip of cloth or other material.
9. a strip or band of any kind.
10. a stripe of color.
11. a division of the hair or beard.
12. one of the ridges or furrows of earth made by a lister.
13. a strip of material, as bark or sapwood, to be trimmed from a board.
14. fillet (def 6a).

adjective

1. made of selvages or strips of cloth.

verb (used with object)

1. to produce furrows and ridges on (land) with a lister.
2. to prepare (ground) for planting by making ridges and furrows.
3. to cut away a narrow strip of wood from the edge of (a stave, plank, etc.).
4. Obsolete. to apply a border or edge to.

Origin of listers

An Americanism dating back to 1885-90; list² + -er¹

Examples for listers

Unfortunately he based his work upon that of Schuch and Wuestemann and lister.

Why, Mrs. lister even asked me which of you was her husband—you or Mr. Dakers.

Such, at least, is the character given him by Mr lister in Granby.

It is Craterium cylindricum of Massee's monograph, according to lister.

Upon it the antiseptic system of Professor lister of Edinburgh is founded.

From his father lister learned as a boy to delight in the use of the microscope.

“All of this is damaging to the Syrian revolution,” lister adds.

To my mother's astonishment, when she reached the door Mrs. lister was not visible.

He was, on the point I have mentioned, a great contrast to lister.

Humelbergius ignores him, Gryphius pirates him, lister scorns him, we like him.