[f. TRYST v. + -ER1.] One who trysts. a. ‘A person who convenes others,… fixing the time and place of meeting’ (Jam.). b. One who appoints to meet another. c. One who attends a tryst or appointed meeting.
1655. R. Baillie, Lett. (1842), III. 279. We had drawne up ane overture,… according to the Assemblie’s late overture for union, and by the hands of the trysters … sent it into their meeting.
1810. Cromek, Rem. Nithsdale Song, Introd. 21. The old cottars (the trysters of other years) are mostly dead in good old age.
1878. T. Hardy, Return of Native, I. ix. The expected trysters did not appear.
