Definition of "waster"

waster¹

/ˈweɪstə/

noun
plural wasters
1. Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly.
2. (dialectal) An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste.
3. (obsolete) A destroyer or plunderer.
  Quotations
  He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Proverbs 18:9
4. An item that is spoiled during its manufacture.
  Quotations
  Unless the cast was very hot indeed, the steel would refuse to ascend, and a great many wasters were caused thereby.
  1895, Richard Smith-Casson, “Small Cast Steel Ingots”, in Transactions of the Iron and Steel Institute, volume 46, page 215

waster²

/ˈweɪstə/

noun
plural wasters
1. (obsolete, chiefly fencing) A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
  Quotations
  Or, as they that play at wasters exercise themselves by a few cudgels how to avoid an enemy's blows, let us arm ourselves against all such violent incursions which may invade our minds.
  1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, partition II, section 3, member 6
2. (obsolete, Scotland) A leister; a spear for catching fish.