Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Waster

Waster , noun

[Old English wastour, Old French wasteor, gasteor. See Waste, transitive verb]

1.
One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal.
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. — Bible (KJV) - Proverb xviii. 9
Sconces are great wasters of candles. — Swift
2.
An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste; -- called also a thief. — Halliwell
3.
A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
Half a dozen of veneys at wasters with a good fellow for a broken head. — Beau. & Fl
Being unable to wield the intellectual arms of reason, they are fain to betake them unto wasters. — Sir T. Browne