maistry

English

Noun

maistry (countable and uncountable, plural maistries)

  1. (obsolete) Mastery.
  2. A foreman.
    • 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings:
      Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “Well, yes, of a kind. I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”

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