[f. TOAST v.1 + -ER1.]

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  1.  One who toasts anything by the fire.

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1582.  Stanyhurst, Conceits, in Æneis, etc. (Arb.), 137. Chymneys fyrye be scorching or Cyclopan tosters.

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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.

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  2.  A toasting-fork. Humorously, a rapier or similar weapon. Cf. cheese-toaster: CHEESE sb.1 7.

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  b.  A kind of cheese, bread, or the like, that toasts (well or otherwise, as expressed).

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1695.  in Verney Mem. (1907), II. 475. A Silver Toster to toast bread on.

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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.

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1838.  Maginn, in Fraser’s Mag., XVII. 8. Sliced into steaks,… Pierced on the toaster’s point.

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1845.  Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., VI. I. 107. I have tasted some of these cheeses, and find them … fair toasters.

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1851.  Mayhew, Lond. Labour, I. II. 9/2. ‘Here’s toasters!’ bellows one with a Yarmouth bloater stuck on a toasting-fork.

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