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freezer|ˈfriːzə(r)|
[f. freeze v. + -er1.]
1. A machine used for freezing, or for keeping anything extremely cold. Also, a refrigerated room; a compartment in a refrigerator or freezing machine. So in Comb.
1847in Missouri Hist. Rev. (1942) XXXVI. 121 An article called a ‘Freezer’, which consists of a cylindrical jar, made of block tin, and fitted with a close cover [for ice-cream manufacture]. 1860O. W. Holmes Elsie V. (1887) 74 He had agitated a quantity of..milk in what was called a cream-freezer. 1870Mrs. Prentiss Let. 4 July in Life xi. (1883) 350 Papa bought a new fashioned freezer, that professed to freeze in two minutes. 1924U.S. Dept. Agric. Dept. Bull. No. 1246. 9 Most packing and cold-storage plants are also equipped with what are known as ‘freezers’, which are refrigerating rooms in which the temperature can be lowered to 5° or 10°F.—sometimes lower. 1949Gloss. Terms Refrigeration (B.S.I.) 9 Freezer, a low-temperature cold store, normally maintained below 20°F. 1959B.S.I. News Apr. 17/1 The British Standards covering electric refrigerators and food freezers..have now been revised. 1959Housewife June 129 A really big Kelvinator..gives you a roomier freezer compartment. 1961Times 9 Aug. 5/2 The freezer trawler can stay on the fishing grounds until her holds are full. 1970Kenya Farmer Feb. 15/1 A new freezer and chiller block.
2. Anything that freezes.
1845Hood To Adm. Gambier ix, The Maine—the Weser—or that freezer, Neva.
fig.1848Dickens Dombey v, The books..looked..as if they had but one idea among them, and that was a freezer.
3. N.Z. A sheep destined, when killed, to exportation in a cold chamber.
1889Williams & Reeves Colonial Couplets 21 Be they [sc. sheep] freezers or crawlers or wethers or ewes. 1893J. Hotson Lect. in Age 30 Nov. 7/2 The breeding of what are in New Zealand known as ‘freezers’. 1907W. H. Koebel Return of Joe 177 Many were the pressings and pinches bestowed on each indignant animal before he was decided worthy of the honour of becoming a ‘freezer’.
4. In Chasing, a punch for producing a frosted groundwork. (Cf. frieze v.2 3.) Also freezing tool.
1887L. L. Haslope Repoussé Work 23 A small punch, called a freezing tool, which produces a small star. 1898T. B. Wigley Art Goldsm. & Jeweller 79 Punches of various shapes, called chasing tools... Freezer. Mat. Dead Mat. Hair Mat.
5. Special Comb.: freezer-burn, uneven discoloration of frozen meat or poultry that has been inadequately packaged to prevent surface evaporation.
1929Industr. & Engin. Chem. May 416/2 When certain forms of meats and poultry are sharp-frozen, the extensive drying of the surface, sometimes apparently associated with a partial oxidation of the fats..,causes an effect known as ‘freezer-burn’. 1979Homes & Gardens June 154/2 Where inadequate or damaged packaging is used, freezer burn can occur, which shows up as dry discoloured patches on the exposed surface of the food. |