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noun

Paster n.

One who pastes; as, a paster in a government department.

A slip of paper, usually bearing a name, intended to be pasted by the voter, as a substitute, over another name on a printed ballot. (Cant, U.S.)

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Etymology of 'Paster'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Paster" Quotes from Famous Books

... the restaurant girl. "It's the easiest kind of work. But then an educated person can pick up most any trade in a few days, well enough to get along. They'll make you a paster, at first." ...

— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips

... I see him and Uncle Sime down by the back paster on the creek pacin' to and fro as if they wuz measurin' land. And most of all they seemed to be measurin' off solemn like and important the lane from the creek lot up to the house and takin' measurements, as queer lookin' sights as I ever see, and then they would consult the papers and ...

— Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition • Marietta Holley

... as a separate ballot is required for each party or each independent nomination. These separate ballots are all official, and are furnished at public expense; but the use of an unofficial ballot is practically allowed, since the voter is permitted to take to the voting booth a paster ballot containing a complete party ticket, printed and furnished at party expense. This he can paste over the official ballot and deposit ...

— Elements of Civil Government • Alexander L. Peterman

... that there 'Rural Beauty' done it," Mr. Morton broke in peevishly. "Wish't I'd never let them film people camp up there on my paster lot and take them picters on my farm. Sallie was jest carried away with it. She acted in that five-reel film, 'A Rural Beauty.' And I must say she looked as purty as a peach ...

— Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays • Annie Roe Carr

Words linked to "Paster" : ex libris, sticker, workingman, label, paste, workman, gummed label