Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which tempers, in any sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
tempers (in any meaning) - noun A machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The tool temperer is the man to hold responsible for results.
The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel 1916
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For terminus and temperer to all, they were originally written; and that shall be their office at the last.
Preface, 1876, To the Two-Volume Centennial Edition of L. of G. and “Two Rivulets.” Collect 1892
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For terminus and temperer to all, they were originally written; and that shall be their office at the last.
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For terminus and temperer to all, they were originally written; and that shall be their office at the last.
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855
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Charles, a clay temperer, who died in 1998 aged 93, was a bellringer for more than 50 years before retiring.
Express & Star 2009
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The other option is to buy a commercial-grade chocolate temperer, which ranges from about $300 to more than $2,500.
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I’m surprised to find Michael Shermer as the temperer of pugnacious atheism.
hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Michael Shermer, Of All People, On Tolerable Atheism 2007
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