linkster

Example Sentences

• "Gleefully and legally intruding upon the sanctum of the wealthy linksters, we walked the mitigation meadows."
• "1645, John Winthrop, journal entry, in James Savage (ed.), The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, New York: Arno Press, 1972, p. 237, There was one Redman suspected to have betrayed their pinnace, for he being linkister, (because he could speak the language,) and being put out of that employment for his evil carriage, did bear ill will to the master […]"
• "1725, Tobias Fitch, journal entry, in Newton D. Mereness (ed.), Travels in the American Colonies, New York: Macmillan, 1916, p. 197, I then Called for the White man and made him give in the Indean Tongue the same words that he heard spoke in the Square by the head men, which by my Lingister agreed with what he Told me in English."
• "1835, John Howard Payne, letter to a relative, in Charles M. Hudson (ed.), Ethnology of the Southeastern Indians: A Source Book, New York: Garland Publishing, 1985, p. 185, I asked a linkister the meaning of a song the Indian was singing with such glee. The black linkister laughed, and was reluctant to explain;"
• "“Wildcat can’t talk white man’s talk.” ¶ “But he can talk through a linkster,” argued Thompson […]"
• "“[…] when ye talks ter me about grievances, ye talks a language I kin onderstand without no lingster ter construe hit.”"