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Noun: lister  lis-tu(r)
  1. A person who compiles lists or catalogues
    "She works as a lister for auction houses"
     
  2. Assessor who makes out the tax lists
    "The lister carefully reviewed property values for the annual tax assessment"
     
  3. Moldboard plough with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow
    "The farmer used a lister plough to prepare the field for planting";
    - lister plow [N. Amer], lister plough [Brit, Cdn], middlebreaker, middle buster
     
  4. [Brit] A person or property that is listed on a register or given a rank
    "That building is a Grade II lister"; "He's a very much a B-lister"
Noun: Lister  lis-tu(r)
  1. English surgeon who was the first to use antiseptics (1827-1912)
    - Joseph Lister, Baron Lister

Derived forms: Listers, listers

Type of: assessor, moldboard plow [N. Amer], mouldboard plough [Brit, Cdn], operating surgeon, sawbones [informal], surgeon, tax assessor

Encyclopedia: Lister, Matthew