[f. TOAST v.1 + -ER1.]
1. One who toasts anything by the fire.
1582. Stanyhurst, Conceits, in Æneis, etc. (Arb.), 137. Chymneys fyrye be scorching or Cyclopan tosters.
1861. J. Pycroft, Agony Point (1862), 233. Dear Willie should be made a fag a toaster of muffins, with no time to eat his own.
2. A toasting-fork. Humorously, a rapier or similar weapon. Cf. cheese-toaster: CHEESE sb.1 7.
b. A kind of cheese, bread, or the like, that toasts (well or otherwise, as expressed).
1695. in Verney Mem. (1907), II. 475. A Silver Toster to toast bread on.
1751. Smollett, Per. Pic., xxiv. His assailant desired he would lay aside his toaster [i.e., rapier] and take a bout with him at equal arms.
1838. Maginn, in Frasers Mag., XVII. 8. Sliced into steaks, Pierced on the toasters point.
1845. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., VI. I. 107. I have tasted some of these cheeses, and find them fair toasters.
1851. Mayhew, Lond. Labour, I. II. 9/2. Heres toasters! bellows one with a Yarmouth bloater stuck on a toasting-fork.