blancher

English

Etymology

From blanch +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblænt͡ʃɚ/, /ˈblɑːnt͡ʃɚ/

Noun

blancher (plural blanchers)

1. One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; especially, one who anneals and cleanses money, or a chemical preparation for this purpose.
2. A machine for blanching or whitening.
3. (obsolete) One who, or that which, frightens away or turns aside.
   • a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:

     And Gynecia, a blancher, which kept the dearest deer from her.

   • 18 January 1549, Hugh Latimer, Sermon of the Plough

     And so even now hath he divers blanchers belonging to the market, to let and stop the light of the gospel.

Related terms

• blencher

Translations

machine

• Polish: blanszownik m

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “blancher”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)