Monday, August 8, 2011

Roaster

Someone who applies and tends the fire and roasts coffee, malt, or other food.

"Muster up all the Fidlers in the Town; let not so much as the Roaster of Tunes, with his crack'd cymbal in a case, escape ye."

Thomas Otway, The Cheats of Scapin (1677).

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