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Waiter   /wˈeɪtər/   Listen
noun
Waiter  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance, esp. at table. "The waiters stand in ranks; the yeomen cry, "Make room," as if a duke were passing by."
2.
A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver.
Coast waiter. See under Coast, n.





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"Waiter" Quotes from Famous Books



... was made one of the commissioners of the customs, in which post he distinguished himself by his skill and fidelity. Of the latter of these qualities we have an instance, in his treatment of a man, who sollicited to be a tide-waiter: Somebody had told him that his best way to succeed would be to make a present. The advice had been perhaps good enough if he had not mistaken his man. For understanding that Mr. Maynwaring had the best ...
— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Vol. III • Theophilus Cibber
... Alexander Pop," put in Tom, referring to the colored man who had once been a waiter at the Hall, and who was ...
— The Rover Boys In The Mountains • Arthur M. Winfield
... trouble was all about. It didn't seem reasonable any female person could act that way till I see the Majoress. She had dignity enough for two maiden ladies at a niece's weddin' and a nigger head-waiter. The way she laid holt of Hadds' collar was impressive a great deal more than I'm able to tell you. Poor Hadds was faded. He looked like a pup caught with a chicken in his mouth. They made a grand march ...
— Mr. Scraggs • Henry Wallace Phillips
... offence. Bets were offered, and high words passed, but the company thought the matter had blown over. On going out, however, the disputants met on the stairs, and one of the two, it is uncertain which, cried out to the waiter to show them an empty room. This was done, and a single tallow candle being placed on the table, the door was shut. A few minutes later a bell was rung, and the hotel master rushing in, Mr. Chaworth was found mortally wounded. There had been a struggle ...
— Byron • John Nichol
... and among the cages and pens and ranges of the animals, in the midst of which their own restaurant appeared. An Italian band of mandolins and guitars was already at noonday softly murmuring and whimpering in the corner of the veranda where the tables were set; and they got an amiable old waiter, whose fault it was not if spring-lamb matures so early in the summer of its brief term as to seem last-fall-lamb. There is no good reason either to suppose he did not really believe in the pease. But why will pease that know they have been the whole winter in the can pretend to be ...
— Imaginary Interviews • W. D. Howells


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