sampler

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun One who is employed to take and appraise samples, as of a food product.
• noun A mechanical device that is used to obtain and analyze samples.
• noun A decorative piece of cloth embroidered with various designs or mottoes in a variety of stitches, serving as an example of skill at needlework.
• noun A representative collection or selection.
• noun A variety; an assortment.
• noun An electronic device used to copy and digitally manipulate a segment from an audio recording for use in a new recording.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A kind of shovel divided into several parallel rectangular compartments, used in taking uniform and similar samples from a heap of pulverized ore or other material to be assayed.
• noun An exemplar; a pattern.
• noun A piece of embroidery, worsted-work, or the like.
• noun One who samples; one who makes up and exhibits samples for the inspection of merchants, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun One who makes up samples for inspection; one who examines samples, or by samples.
• noun A pattern; a specimen; especially, a collection of needlework patterns, as letters, borders, etc., to be used as samples, or to display the skill of the worker.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun someone whose job is to take samples
• noun a device that takes samples
• noun music A digital device that merges together samples of recordings
• noun a piece of needlework embroidered with a variety of designs
• noun a representative selection of a larger group

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun someone who samples food or drink for its quality
• noun an assortment of various samples
• noun a piece of embroidery demonstrating skill with various stitches
• noun an observation station that is set up to make sample observations of something