▪ I. tryster
(ˈtraɪstə(r))
[f. tryst v. + -er1.]
One who trysts. a. ‘A person who convenes others,..fixing the time and place of meeting’ (Jam.). b. One who appoints to meet another. c. One who attends a tryst or appointed meeting.
| 1655 R. Baillie Lett. (1842) III. 279 We had drawne up ane overture,..according to the Assemblie's late overture for union, and by the hands of the trysters..sent it into their meeting. 1810 Cromek Rem. Nithsdale Song Introd. 21 The old cottars (the trysters of other years) are mostly dead in good old age. 1878 T. Hardy Ret. Native i. ix, The expected trysters did not appear. |
▪ II. tryster, -ere
variants of tristre Obs.