Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who prepares coffee-beans for use by roasting them.
- noun A machine or rotary cylinder used in roasting coffee-beans.
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Examples
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A coffee-roaster is better than a pot to roast coffee in, as it preserves the fine aromatic flavor of the coffee, which in a great measure escapes with the steam of the coffee, when roasted in an open pot.
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He now became, in his sixteenth year, apprentice to a grocer; and he subsequently established himself as a coffee-roaster in the capital.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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The beans, being freed from all spoiled and mouldy portions, are to be gently roasted over a fire in an iron cylinder, with holes in its ends for allowing the vapors to escape, the apparatus being similar to a coffee-roaster.
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Additional United States coffee-roaster patents were issued to G.W. Hungerford in 1887-89.
All About Coffee 1909
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Fleury & Barker, of London, were granted a coffee-roaster patent in Germany in 1881.
All About Coffee 1909
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In 1903, also, there was granted the first United States patent on an electric coffee-roaster, the patentee being George C. Lester of New
All About Coffee 1909
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During the campaign in France in 1814, Napoleon arrived one day, unheralded, in a country presbytery, where the good curé was quietly turning his hand coffee-roaster.
All About Coffee 1909
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In the sixties and seventies, French inventors became quite active on coffee-roaster improvements.
All About Coffee 1909
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In 1862, E.J. Hyde, of Philadelphia, was granted a United States patent on a combined coffee-roaster and stove fitted with a crane on which the roasting cylinder was revolved and swung out horizontally for emptying and refilling.
All About Coffee 1909
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A dozen coffee-roaster patents were issued in Germany in 1880-82.
All About Coffee 1909
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