Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who blanches or whitens, in any sense of the verb blanch.
- noun One who turns aside or causes to turn aside; a perverter.
- noun One stationed for the purpose of turning game in some direction; a sewel (which see).
- noun One who starts or balks at anything.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; esp., one who anneals and cleanses money; also, a chemical preparation for this purpose.
- noun obsolete One who, or that which, frightens away or turns aside.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
machine forblanching orwhitening . - noun obsolete One who, or that which, frightens away or turns aside.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The blancher is a large vessel filled with one hundred and seventy degree water.
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Time to fire up the blancher and put another bag of beans in the freezer for T's lunches this winter ... :o
Archive 2005-09-01 Pat 2005
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Time to fire up the blancher and put another bag of beans in the freezer for T's lunches this winter ... :o
Late green beans Pat 2005
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The fries are then flumed out of the A.D.R. room to the "blancher."
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After the fries leave the blancher, they are dried and then it's off to the "fryer," which is filled with one hundred percent vegetable oil.
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The trip through the blancher takes about fifteen minutes ...
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