Definition of "staymaker" [stay•mak•er]

• Someone who makes stays. (noun)

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• "He was an Irishman, about twenty-eight years of age, originally apprenticed to a staymaker in Dublin; then writer to a London attorney; then a Grub Street hack, scribbling for magazines and newspapers."
• "I am neither a felonious drysalter returned from exile, an hospital stump-turner, a decayed staymaker, a bankrupt printer, or insolvent debtor, released by act of parliament."
• "His first lodgings were at the house of Mr. Norris, a staymaker, in Exeter-street, adjoining"