Hypertext Webster Gateway: "taster"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Taster \Tast"er\, n.
1. One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or
drink to ascertain its quality.
Thy tutor be thy taster, ere thou eat. --Dryden.
2. That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram
cup, a cheese taster, or the like.
3. (Zo["o]l.) 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}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
taster
n : someone who samples food or drink for its quality [syn: {tastetester},
{sampler}]
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