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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
distiller
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Donald McEachern, late merchant & distiller, at Bridgend, died in 1843 and was buried at Kilarrow.
▪ The fellowship was set up in 1977 and is sponsored by William Grant and Sons, distillers of Glenfiddich malt whisky.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Distiller

Distiller \Dis*till"er\, n.

  1. One who distills; esp., one who extracts alcoholic liquors by distillation.

  2. The condenser of a distilling apparatus.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
distiller

1570s, agent noun from distill.

Wiktionary
distiller

n. 1 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. 2 A device or apparatus that distills, a condenser; a still. 3 A company whose business is distilling, especially one that manufactures alcoholic spirits or liquor.

WordNet
distiller

n. someone who distills alcoholic liquors

Wikipedia
Distiller (disambiguation)

A distiller is somebody who distills or something that distills. See distillation.

Distiller or Distillers may also refer to:

  • Adobe Distiller, formerly part of Adobe Acrobat software
  • Distillers Company, a former Scotch whisky and pharmaceutical company
  • The Distillers, an American punk rock band
    • The Distillers (EP) (1999), the band's debut release
    • The Distillers (album) (2000)

Usage examples of "distiller".

Yet almost everybody agrees that distilled water tastes awfulexcept for people who sell home water distillers and some friends of mine who are clinically paranoid about chemicals in their environment.

I don't think somebody coming cold to - ' 'I mean,' Eddie says, slicing through my waffle like a steak knife, 'all this about the Distillers Company and the Guinness take-over.

In 1876 the government offered a year's amnesty, and although some distillers took advantage of it, most of them didn't.

As it is, Mo's got distillers clear back the other side o' Monongahela working back-shifts by the light of the moon, and Waggons that do and don't make it thro', all so that our Guests here'll be taken care of.

You’ll find stolen whisky in the vats… if you apply to Rannoch whisky distillers you’ll get a profile match.

I've tasted Bludd liquor before now, and no offense to your makers and distillers, but this stuff must belong to the Dhoone.

Let's drink to brewers with nimble fingers and distillers with surgeon's hands.

Sir George said: "The colonists are a damned gang of bandits, that's all they are-and the Boston rum distillers are the worst.

These home brews were powerful concoctions known generally as skokiaan, and according to the recipe of the individual distiller, could contain anything from methylated spirits to the corpses of poisonous snakes and aborted infants.

Sometimes they would drive all the way to Windsor, and stop at roadhouses that featured cocktails and ferocious piano-playing and raffish dancing—roadhouses frequented by gangsters involved in the rum-running, who would come up from Chicago and Detroit to make their deals with the law-abiding distillers on the Canadian side.

Distillers of gin make use of it, and veterinary surgeons employ it as a drug for cattle and horses.