froster

English

Etymology

From frost +‎ -er.

Noun

froster (plural frosters)

1. One who applies frosting.
   • 1941, Oswald Fenton Hedley, Heart Disease in Philadelphia Cardiac Clinics, page 17:

     A froster and a cake sealer had repeated attacks of dermatitis on returning to their work, although the cause could not be ascertained.

   • 2016, Martha Grimes, Ken Grimes, Double Double: A Dual Memoir of Alcoholism, page 88:

     Julie was a froster, the glamour job at the factory. She wore her cute white hat cocked at a jaunty angle while working a big white bag of frosting, twisting it rapidly in her hands to create the various designs on top of the gâteaux.

2. A kind of freezer for food.
   • 2004, Nancy Rubin, American Empress, page 140:

     To standardize his rapid-freeze process, Birdseye devised an iron container with steel plates. Within them he placed packages of fresh fish in a low-temperature brine refrigerant. Knowing that the public would be wary, Birdseye named the contraption a froster rather than a freezer.