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▪ I. melter|ˈmɛltə(r)|
[f. melt v.1 + -er1.]
1. One who or that which melts, in various senses of the vb.
1581Act 23 Eliz. c. 8 §1 The said Melter, Myngler or Corrupter,..shall forfeyte [etc.]. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. cxlvii. vi, Abroad the southern wind, his melter goes. c1620Fletcher & Mass. False One ii. iii, Thou melter of strong mindes, dar'st thou presume To smother all his triumphes with thy vanityes? 1695Locke Short Observ. Pr. Paper 19 The melter of our mill'd money. a1764Lloyd On Rhyme Poet. Wks. 1774 II. 123 The..charming melter of his purse. 1824–9Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1846 I. 204, I keep both out of the crucible and out of the aqua regia, another great melter and transmuter. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xvii. 201 One of our deck-watch, who had been cutting ice for the melter.
2. spec. One whose trade or office it is to melt metals or other substances; esp. a workman so employed in a factory or in the Mint; also, formerly, † the designation of an officer of the Exchequer.
1535Coverdale Jer. vi. 29 The leade is consumed, the melter melteth in vayne. 1567Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 556 All Meltaris, Forgearis, and Prentaris within the said cunyehous. 1670Pettus Fodinæ Reg. 41 Then the Melters, that melt the Bullion before it come to the Coining. 1697Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) IV. 191 Then they heard the accusation against major Barton, the chief melter of York mint. 1708Madox tr. Dial. de Scacc. i. iii. 4 b, The under exchequer..has..two officers,..one who presides over the examinations, and the melter... The melter also examines the silver. 1883P. L. Simmonds Usef. Anim., Melter, a tallow chandler. 1884C. G. W. Lock Workshop Rec. Ser. iii. 254/1 The foreman may have various reasons for wanting his melter to make all these changes.
3. A small furnace or melting-pot.
1883Haldane Workshop Rec. Ser. ii. 103 An improved form of melter..consists of a small furnace [etc.].
4. A variety of the peach in which the flesh parts freely from the stone when ripe; = free-stone2.
1766Complete Farmer s.v. Peach-tree, The nivette; this is a melter, and ripens in September. 1840Penny Cycl. XVII. 347. 1866 [see clingstone].
▪ II. melter
obs. form of milter. |