'Taster' definitions:
Definition of 'taster'
(from WordNet)
noun
Someone who samples food or drink for its quality [syn: taster, taste tester, taste-tester, sampler]
Definition of 'Taster'
From: GCIDE
- Taster \Tast"er\ (t[=a]st"[~e]r), n.
- 1. One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or drink to ascertain its quality. [1913 Webster]
- Thy tutor be thy taster, ere thou eat. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Zool.) 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. [1913 Webster]