Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that distills, as a condenser.
- n. One that makes alcoholic liquors by the process of distillation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which distils; one whose occupation is to extract spirit by distillation.
- n. An apparatus for distilling water. On shipboard such apparatus is used to supply fresh water for drinking and washing, and for use in the boilers. A coil of boiler steam is placed in a tank of sea-water and the distillate caught and cooled. The deposited salt is removed at intervals as the solution of sea-water grows concentrated. For drinking, the distilled water is subsequently aërated.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who distills, especially alcoholic spirits or hard liquor by a process of distillation; a person who owns, works in or operates a distillery.
- n. A device or apparatus that distills, a condenser; a still.
- n. A company whose business is distilling, especially one that manufactures alcoholic spirits or liquor.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who distills; esp., one who extracts alcoholic liquors by distillation.
- n. The condenser of a distilling apparatus.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who distills alcoholic liquors
Examples
“Mountain Dew at my Tennesee distiller is between 110 and 130 proof.”
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“But he was well known as a distiller around his native Parrottsville.”
The Wall Street Journal: Legendary Tennessee Moonshiner Plied His Trade to the End
“The distiller is a practical chemist; and although he may never have studied chemistry in the schools, he cannot but have often thought of the theory of his operations.”
“Comes with a 'distiller' and a 'desktop' for Linux and Windows.”
“Mr. Hardiquest says that he will stock the kitchen's extra space with new equipment, like his own alcohol distiller, which he can use to conjure up homemade food essences.”
“He returned to Brown-Forman in 1997 and became master distiller "upon the previous master distiller's retirement," in 2004.”
The Wall Street Journal: Distilling a Lifetime of Whiskey Knowledge
“He attended Bellarmine University, in Louisville, Ky., where he studied business, and he eventually landed at United Distillers, where he worked his way up to be the master distiller of Rebel Yell, another bourbon.”
The Wall Street Journal: Distilling a Lifetime of Whiskey Knowledge
“As master distiller for the American spirits maker Brown-Forman, Mr. Morris is charged with overseeing the production of a good, consistent bourbon whiskey—a surprisingly complex task because of the many things that can affect a whiskey's flavor, from the barrel in which it is stored to the crop of corn used to make it.”
The Wall Street Journal: Distilling a Lifetime of Whiskey Knowledge
“On his way to becoming a master distiller he has done everything from sweep the floors to work in the company's sophisticated laboratory, breaking down the chemicals in alcohol.”
The Wall Street Journal: Distilling a Lifetime of Whiskey Knowledge
“He has adapted a distiller created for the giant food conglomerate down the street, for example, so that it produces a clear, tasteless liquid that smells deeply and perfectly of the ingredient—lemon, strawberry, toasted bread—from which it is drawn.”
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In The Laboratory
List of laboratory glassware and apparatuses, machines, tools, etc., starting with burette.
Please feel free to help me populate this list, all you mad scientist Wordniks.burette, reagent bottle, Erlenmeyer flask, pipette, centrifuge, ultracentrifuge, beaker, spot plate, crucible, flask, mortar, pestle and 117 more...
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Hey kids! What do YOU want to be when you grow up?!
Reprint edition, Devon: Latimer Trend & Co., Ltd., 1969. Full original citation (you'd better grab a drink and sit down) is:
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