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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sealer
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Seal all tent seams with seam sealer. 3.
▪ So buy the best sealer you can find, and use it faithfully.
▪ The multimedia part offers animated information about design considerations and follows through all the way to applying deck sealer and making repairs.
▪ The old sides can be removed by slicing through the silicone sealer with a razor or scalpel.
▪ The same goes for diving in front of a seal pup to protect it from the sealers.
▪ Then seal all the edges with a ribbon of sealer to make them watertight.
▪ To remain effective, sealers must be renewed, usually every year or two.
▪ Wrap pressure-treated wood with heavy plastic, or coat it with a sealer.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sealer

Sealer \Seal"er\, n. One who seals; especially, an officer whose duty it is to seal writs or instruments, to stamp weights and measures, or the like.

Sealer

Sealer \Sealer\, n. A mariner or a vessel engaged in the business of capturing seals.

Wiktionary
sealer

Etymology 1 n. 1 A tool used to seal something. 2 A person who is employed to seal things. 3 # An officer responsible for sealing writs or instruments, stamping weights and measures, etc. 4 A coating designed to prevent excessive absorption of finish coats into pourous surfaces; a coating designed to prevent bleeding. Etymology 2

n. 1 A person who hunts seals. 2 A vessel engaged in the business of capturing seals.

WordNet
sealer

  1. n. a kind of sealing material that is used to form a hard coating on a porous surface (as a coat of paint or varnish used to size a surface) [syn: sealant]

  2. an official who affixes a seal to a document

Wikipedia
Sealer

Sealer may refer either to a person or ship engaged in seal hunting, or to a sealant; associated terms include:

Seal hunting
  • Sealer Hill, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
  • Sealers' Oven, bread oven of mud and stone built by sealers around 1800 near Albany, Western Australia
  • Sealers Passage, marine channel in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
  • Sealers' War, conflict in southern New Zealand started by sealers in 1810
Sealant
  • Concrete sealers, products applied to concrete to protect it from corrosion
  • Heat sealer, machine using heat to seal products
  • Stone sealer, surface treatment product to retard staining and corrosion in natural stone

Usage examples of "sealer".

And, unfortunately, Sealer Greenlaw, Adjudicator Leutwyn, and Chief Venn.

Zhirrzh said, glancing around nervously as he pulled the roll out of its plastic sealer and handed it to Thrr-tulkoj.

Inside were labeled hypos, a couple of stat-readers for measuring body temperature, respiration, and blood pressure, a wound sealer, and even an old-fashioned suturing kit.

Because we want to know the rate at which neutrons are being counted, we put in a sealer which can be started and stopped by electrical timing signals and then re-set.

One set their sealer back to zero, and the oscillator began again to tick.

From the vantage point of the wharf, he watched for the return of the sealer Mary Ann, but it was dusk before a helpful passerby pointed the vessel out to him.

On Saturday, however, Kitty found herself alone when Dominic Hayes arrived in his carriage to pick her up, Patrick and Johnny having ridden out to interview the master of a sealer who was said to have signed on three men suspected by the police of being ticket-of-leave absconders.

Madam Sealer, provided Boss Watts authorizes both all my overtime hours, and another supervisor to take over my routine duties.

If you or the Sealer would warn station traffic control, plus clear whatever shuttle Vorpatril sends, that would be most helpful.

If you wish to get the Sealer, the Imperial Auditor, and the others back alive, these are my requirements.

He talked carefully around the tactical use of trade fleet escorts as rapid-deployment forces, although he doubted the sealer missed the implications.

Dragon on steel tables were a Geiger counter, a radiation graph that drew a red line on rolling paper, and a neutron sealer that measured radiation with a bank of six red lights.

The sealer lights multiplied rapidly now that the two bowls were only eight inches apart.

The six sealer lights were solid red, flashing so fast that no intervals could be seen.

He told Hardy to get out of the unit, and he released a cloud of plastic sealer into the rooms and slammed the main door.