[f. BEAM sb.1 8 + -STER; cf. teamster.] The man who works at the beam in a tannery, unhairing the hides.
1885. H. M. Newhall in Harper’s Mag., Jan., 274/2. The beamsters, bending to their task, look as if they had taken in a large week’s washing.
[f. BEAM sb.1 8 + -STER; cf. teamster.] The man who works at the beam in a tannery, unhairing the hides.
1885. H. M. Newhall in Harper’s Mag., Jan., 274/2. The beamsters, bending to their task, look as if they had taken in a large week’s washing.
