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taster
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun taster has 1 sense
- taster(n = noun.person) sampler, taste tester, taste-tester - someone who samples food or drink for its quality; Array is a kind of critic
has particulars: wine taster
Derived forms verb taste3, verb taste5
CIDE DICTIONARY
taster, n.
- One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or drink to ascertain its quality. [1913 Webster]"Thy tutor be thy taster, ere thou eat." [1913 Webster]
- That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like. [1913 Webster]
- One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
taster, n.
1 a person employed to test food or drink by tasting it, esp. for quality or hist. to detect poisoning.
2 a small cup used by a wine-taster.
3 an instrument for extracting a small sample from within a cheese.
1 a person employed to test food or drink by tasting it, esp. for quality or hist. to detect poisoning.
2 a small cup used by a wine-taster.
3 an instrument for extracting a small sample from within a cheese.
Etymology
ME f. AF tastour, OF tasteur f. taster: see TASTE
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