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Curer

Curer \Cur"er\ (-?r), n.

  1. One who cures; a healer; a physician.

  2. One who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by drying, salting, smoking, etc.

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curer

n. 1 A healer. 2 A person who, or device which preserves food by curing.

Usage examples of "curer".

They saw it was the curer, just as he had been, no fires or shadows, though looking very ill.

He was easy to talk with, and she told him about the curer, since there was nothing much to say about herself.

Then one day while he was visiting his friend Vicente, a curer from the north, some people brought in a crazy girl, a girl who did nothing else but cry.

CC: The word brujos, the Spanish conception, it could be translated in various ways, in English could render a sorcerer, witch, medicine man or herbalist or curer, and, of course, the technical word shaman.

Monsieur Tournevau, the fish curer, who had recognized them, and was trying to attract their attention.

The fish curer had several cousins to dinner every Sunday, and they were having coffee, when a man came in with a letter in his hand.

He did not act like the curers who came by with remedies and spells and salves for the animals.

Within the last quarter of a century, in America, several sects of curers have appeared under various names and have done notable things in the way of healing ailments without the use of medicines.

There is not only the herd, but the shearer and brander, and then the dresser, the curer, the dyer, the fuller, the webster, the merchant, and a score of others.

He was a maverick of sorts, a gambler, a master of many trades: handyman, self-styled curer, hunter and provider of plant and insect specimens for local herbalists and curers and any kind of bird or mammal life for taxidermists or pet shops.