The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flighter \Flight"er\, n. (Brewing)
A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a
cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor.
--Knight.
Wiktionary
n. (context brewing English) A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, so as to produce a circular current in the liquor.
Usage examples of "flighter".
Thus equipped, he summons Herrera and Tinsley, his pupils, to the final demonstration as calmly as though he were ordering his flighter for some mid-day journey to Marseilles.
Therefore old techniques had to be revived, so messages were sent by drum, or tied to flighters, or to bladders cast loose on the ocean currents.
Look not just for the flighters that bore back southern seeds when they quested their prey into these waters, because as you know some seeds pass clear through the digestion of a flighter and are nourished by the dung they're dropped in, nor for what they brought when it foliates and blossoms, but for what lay hid till now when the sun came back and released it .
Look not just for the flighters that bore back southern seeds when they quested their prey into these waters, because as you know some seeds pass clear through the digestion of a flighter and are nourished by the dung they're dropped in, nor for what they brought when it foliates and blossoms, but for what lay hid till now when the sun came back and released it.