Crossword clues for taster
taster
- Paranoid king's lackey
- Paranoid king's employee
- King's employee
- Food sampler
- Winery visitor
- Winery employe
- Wine evaluator
- Vintner's aide
- Tea or wine man
- Soave sampler
- Sampling specialist
- Royal entourage member
- Paranoid ruler's employee
- One who checks for poison
- One eating before a king
- Oenophile, on occasion
- King's sampler?
- Food critic in action
- Employee of a mistrustful monarch
- Culinary guard in ancient Rome
- Coffee company expert
- Busy employee of a paranoid king
- Fantastic eastern wit, a discriminating drinker
- Sampler
- Checker, maybe
- One who sips
- Sipping specialist
- Wine expert, maybe
- Vintner's employee
- Oenologist, at times
- Employee of a paranoid king
- Wine judge, e.g.
- Someone who samples food or drink for its quality
- Tea-company employee
- Royal assistant
- Flavor checker
- Oenophile, at times
- Necessity for a tyrant
- One who tries assorted treats
- Sample stunning device round back of depot
- Sample intended to stimulate interest
- Sample from tesla plant
- Flower attached to tail of giant guinea pig
- Winery employee
- Winery worker
- Wine judge, e.g
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Taster \Tast"er\ (t[=a]st"[~e]r), n.
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One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or drink to ascertain its quality.
Thy tutor be thy taster, ere thou eat.
--Dryden. That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like.
(Zo["o]l.) One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora.
Wiktionary
n. 1 That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like. 2 One who tastes anything, especially food, wine etc., for quality. 3 (context zoology English) A kind of zooid situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora, resembling the feeding zooids, but destitute of mouths. 4 A person who is, by genetic makeup, able to taste phenylthiocarbamide
WordNet
n. someone who samples food or drink for its quality [syn: taste tester, taste-tester, sampler]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "taster".
And all a Malkite poisoner does to get around tasters is dose them with an antidote beforehand.
The Carver, a comely man with his knives in hand, walked into the Hall followed by the Taster, the Assayers, the Cup-Bearer, the Head Butler, and the Head Panter, all flanked by torchbearers.
It resembles the exquisite sensibility of touch which is found in the great billiard player whose fingers can estimate infinitesimal degrees of force, {161} or the similar phenomenon in the professional taster of tea or wine who can distinguish fantastically subtle differences of flavour.
The tasters were well paid and treated, and they were all sons of the chief cook.
It had been tasted by three tasters, including Sergeant Detritus, who was unlikely to be poisoned by anything that worked on humans or even by most things that worked on trolls .
The tasters take two, one to taste, and these days the other's for Littlebottom to check, and then a servant - that's you, Carrot - takes the third one and .
A lot of tasters failed to draw the distinction, but he thought it was there.
But he had learned that what he felt when he tasted was not to be relied upon, which was something few other ginger tasters seemed to have realized.
Most of the males whom Ussmak knew to be ginger tasters (and especially ginger tasters who’d let their habits get the better of them) disappeared from the base: Hessef and Tvenkel among them.
It showed Drefsab hadn’t managed to sweep out all the ginger tasters, and it showed some of them didn’t care for anything on Tosev 3 past where their next taste was coming from.
Run tests on your tasters, and I bet you'll find antidote traces in their systems.
The Great Wine Taster turned as white as a sheet of paper and was physically ill.
Kenny Lindsey took a sip of whisky, closed his eyes, and rolled the liquor round his tongue like a professional wine taster.
When his mother asked him please to cease that line of conversation, he challenged her on her defense of Harrison and left the table in a huff after upsetting his water glass and breaking the tiny, fragile wine taster beside it.
The old masters can separate out the scents within it down to a thousand parts per million concentration, like a wine taster would roll a fine cabernet or merlot on their tongue, and can give you the ingredients of its bouquet.