Taster

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Taster \Tast"er\ (t[=a]st"[~e]r), n.
     1. One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or
        drink to ascertain its quality.
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              Thy tutor be thy taster, ere thou eat. --Dryden.


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     2. That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram
        cup, a cheese taster, or the like.
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     3. (Zool.) 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}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  taster
       n : someone who samples food or drink for its quality [syn: {taste
           tester}, {taste-tester}, {sampler}]