Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A manufacturer of soap.

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Examples

  • The Chicago soap-maker produces 100% organic vegan soaps using solar-powered equipment.

    Crafting a Green Craft at the Summit of Awesome 2009

  • Thanks to no-doubt talented soap-maker LilyBaySoap.

    Tempted to eat these pretty cupcakes? Don't! 2008

  • _ -- Though there are some hundred or more different oils belonging to this class, only two are of much importance to the soap-maker.

    The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton

  • It may be modified or slightly altered according to the fancy of the individual soap-maker or the particular material it is desired to use.

    The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton

  • A commercial soap-maker extracts the glycerin from soap, the housekeeper does not.

    School and Home Cooking Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer

  • _Salt_ (sodium chloride or common salt, NaCl) is a very important material to the soap-maker, and is obtainable in a very pure state.

    The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton

  • His stockings would naturally be objects of curiosity to anyone familiar with the Whitman Mills, just as the pearls around the neck of a famous jeweller's wife would be, or the soap in the tub of a famous soap-maker.

    Tutors' Lane 1937

  • Without the railroad, the farmer who did not live near a navigable stream must remain a backwoodsman; he must make his own farm or his immediate community a self-sufficing unit; he must get from his own land bread and meat and clothing for his family; he must be stock-raiser, grain-grower, farrier, tinker, soap-maker, tanner, chandler -- Jack-of-all-trades and master of none.

    The Agrarian Crusade; a chronicle of the farmer in politics 1923

  • You must pay too for the tax upon the salt, upon the soap, and upon the candles which those workmen consume while employed in your service, and for the tax upon the leather, which the salt-maker, the soap-maker, and the candle-maker consume while employed in their service.

    II. Book V. Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of the Society 1909

  • However, gloves seemed to be the only ceremonial frill required, and they went to the king's business office as informally as they would go to the private room of a soap-maker in Cincinnati.

    The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me William Allen White 1906

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