Word Meanings - REPASTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who takes a repast.

REPASTURE
Food; entertainment. Food for his rage, repasture for his den. Shak.
REPAST
L. repascere to feed again; pref. re- re- + pascere, pastum, to 1. The act of taking food. From dance to sweet repast they turn. Milton. 2. That which is taken as food; a meal; figuratively, any refreshment. "Sleep . . . thy best repast." Denham.
REPASTER
One who takes a repast.
FOREPAST
Bygone. Shak.
SWEEPSTAKES
The whole money or other things staked at a horse race, a given sum being put up for each horse, all of which goes to the winner, or is divided among several, as may be previously agreed. 3. A race for all the sums staked or prizes offered. (more