'Waster' definitions:

Definition of 'waster'

From: WordNet
noun
Someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently [syn: wastrel, waster]
noun
A person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to; "a destroyer of the environment"; "jealousy was his undoer"; "uprooters of gravestones" [syn: destroyer, ruiner, undoer, waster, uprooter]

Definition of 'Waster'

From: GCIDE
  • Waster \Wast"er\, n. [OE. wastour, OF. wasteor, gasteor. See Waste, v. t.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal. [1913 Webster]
  • He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. --Prov. xviii. 9. [1913 Webster]
  • Sconces are great wasters of candles. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste; -- called also a thief. --Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil. [1913 Webster]
  • Half a dozen of veneys at wasters with a good fellow for a broken head. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
  • Being unable to wield the intellectual arms of reason, they are fain to betake them unto wasters. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]