[f. CREAM v. + -ER1.]

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  a.  A flat dish for skimming the cream off milk. b. A machine for separating cream.

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1858.  Slight & Burn, Farm Implem., 509. The creaming-dish … made of china, and sometimes called the skimmer or creamer, is for taking the cream off.

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1885.  J. Long, Brit. Dairy-Farming, 201. At Delft … two creamers are worked.

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  Creamer, Creamerie, -ry, var. of CRAMER, CRAMERY, Sc., pedlar, etc.

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