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 for blanching or whitening.
  • noun obsolete One who, or that which, frightens away or turns aside.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

blanch +‎ -er

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Examples

  • 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

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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

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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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