coolern.
/ˈkuːlə/, U.S. /ˈkulər/ 1.
a. A container in which anything is cooled or set to cool, esp. in a manufacturing process; spec. (a) a container used for cooling the wort in brewing; (b) a container into which syrup is poured to crystallize into sugar.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > sugar manufacture > [noun] > other equipment
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > cooling agent or appliance > [noun] > vessel
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > vessels for other specific purposes > [noun] > for cooling
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a1550 in J. Strutt Horda Angel-Cynnan (1776) III. 65 Item 6 wort leeds, callyd coolars.
1585 in M. A. Havinden Househ. & Farm Inventories Oxfordshire (1965) 192 Hall & Kitchin..3 fates one cooler.
1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) v. xxiii. 589 Boile it very well the second time with the hops, then..put it into the coolers and coole it.
1651 J. French Art Distillation i. 34 A great Alembick, with its cooler or Copper Still.
1736 Compl. Family-piece i. vi. 200 Shift your first Wort out of the Coolers into a Working-Tun.
1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados viii*. 249 If the Syrup be continued longer on the Fire, than is necessary to bring it to a proper Thickness, the Particles of Sugar cannot grain, or crystallize, when afterwards in the Cooler.
1798 R. Bloomfield Spring in Farmer's Boy 217 Streams of new milk thro' flowing coolers stray.
1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 398 On a little lower level than..the copper, is fixed a square or oblong back or cooler..capable of containing from 10 to 20 tons of oil.
1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) II. 766 From the..cooler, the syrup is transferred into wooden chests or boxes,..also called coolers, but which are more properly crystallizers or granulators.
1861 A. Wynter Our Social Bees 211 The boiling beer is now pumped up to the coolers.
1910 Encycl. Brit. IV. 510/1 The cooler is a very shallow vessel of great area.
1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland Text-bk. Trop. Agric. (ed. 2) ii. v. 194 The sugar granulates in the coolers, but it is mixed with much uncrystallisable saccharine matter called molasses.
1949 A. C. Walshaw Heat Engines (ed. 3) ii. 46 Scavenge pumps drain the sump and deliver the oil into a cooler from which it flows into a separate reservoir tank.
1993 P. Brears in C. A. Wilson Liquid Nourishment v. 65 Since the cooler was too small to receive the whole brew, the surplus wort was poured into eighteen wooden buckets.
b. U.S. A water cooler; a container in which water is kept cool.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > water- or wine-cooler
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1838 N.-Y. Mirror 13 Jan. 229/1 The peculiar philosophical effect of this cooler..we are unable to explain.
1905 F. H. Smith At Close Range 250 ‘I'll go to the cooler and wash up what I can,’..she said.
1947 S. Bellow Victim i. 6 He walked out of the office..halting in the anteroom to draw a drink from the glass cooler.
2006 Time Out N.Y. 12 Jan. 8/1 Hernia boy, the new guy who the women ask to change the water bottle on the cooler.
c. Originally U.S. A container of varying dimensions for making or keeping things cool or cold; a refrigerator. Later also: a (usually portable) insulated container for keeping food or drinks cool.
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the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > basket > picnic or packed lunch basket > insulated
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1875 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 10 Nov. 3/3 Finally, the Professor presented the most approved theory as to the treatment of meats before cooking. Coolers, with special contrivances for ventilation, are being multiplied on the continent.
1916 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 6 Feb. (Mag.) 3/6 In some serving pantries there is room for..a cooler for salad plates, frozen desserts etc.
1940 Lima (Ohio) News 8 June 3/5 He has a ‘walk in’ cooler in which the large quarters of meat are stored.
1954 Logansport (Indiana) Press 3 July 3/5 (advt.) When you have a big Acton Portable Cooler you can enjoy ice-cold Coca-Cola wherever you go.
1962 N.Y. Times Mag. 1 July 33/2 (caption) Coolers, shown from left to right are: wicker and leather-trimmed basket with plastic liner..; large vacuum bottle with a shoulder-strap handle..; insulated metal ice chest.
1990 L. L. Ross Harvest Opportunity iv. 126 Before I got the walk-in cooler, I used to freeze ice in half-gallon milk cartons.
1993 Outdoor Canada Oct. 36/3 Tents, sleeping bags, kitchen gear, personal effects and coolers jammed with fresh food are strapped to X-frame packs on the animal.
2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 28 Mar. d9/3 For drinks, there's a cooler..behind the counter holding the supersweet, lemon-spiked sugarcane juice.
2. † a. A cooling medicine or agent. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > [noun] > cooling medicine
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1558 W. Bullein Govt. Healthe f. lxxxiiii.v They [sc. oranges] be good coolers against hoate choller.
1581 N. Woodes Conflict of Conscience iii. iv. sig. Ej He must haue a cooler his tongue runnes at riat.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. ii. 315 That the Liuer be outwardly anointed with some coolers, that it be not ouerheated.
1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. xxii. 396 Citruls, the seeds are great coolers in Feavers.
1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §7 An admirable febrifuge, at once the safest cooler and cordial.
1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. i. 14 In..cases, where coolers and restoratives are necessary.
b. Originally North American. A (usually alcoholic) chilled drink intended to cool or refresh.
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the world > food and drink > drink > [noun] > a drink or draught > for specific purpose
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1829 Savannah (Georgia) Mercury 1 July If I take..a cooler at nine, a bracer at ten, a whetter at eleven,..who has a right to complain?
1889 J. Whitehead Steward's Handbk. 306/1 After a night spent drinking coolers the average dude can find his way to bed—if one of the porters steers him correctly.
1937 N.Y. Herald Tribune 21 Aug. 12/2 It was a Bacardi mint cooler called a Mojito, the place was Sloppy Joe's, in Havana.
2004 Food & Trav. May 15/1 Recharge there, sipping coolers from the beach bar.
3. gen. Something that cools or makes cool, esp. (in later use) in an engine.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > cooling agent or appliance > [noun]
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?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 72 But whoo so was foound so hot in desyre, with the wreast of a Cok waz sure of a coolar.
1653 R. Gentilis tr. F. Bacon Nat. & Exper. Hist. Winds 17 Enquire concerning..Artificiall windes, as Bellowes, Refrigeratories, or Coolers in Parlours.
1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. ii. 6 Wind is a Dryer, even as Frost a Cooler.
1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. (ed. 2) IV. xcii. 235 They do not use ice as a cooler, but snow.
1869 R. Barter Siege of Delhi (1984) 41 He was washing his head and giving himself a cooler after the heat of the day.
1943 E. H. Lewitt Thermodynamics applied to Heat Engines (ed. 3) xi. 234 The machine also contains a cooler, which consists of pipes immersed in circulating water.
1989 Classic & Sportscar Feb. 44/3 Loof's work..included cylinder head modifications..and a new oil pump and cooler.
2007 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 8 Nov. The fluid flows through the extra cooler before it flows through the cooling chamber of the radiator.
4. figurative. Something which cools emotion, excitement, or ardour, or which dampens the spirits. Now rare.
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the mind > emotion > calmness > [noun] > calming person or thing
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > coldness or lack of warm feeling > that which causes
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1592 L. Andrewes Wonderfull Combate f. 60 The Law (we know) is a great cooler to presumption.
1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah 27 This is a cooler both to the Pharisees and Novatians, who were wont to despise sinners.
1608 S. Hieron Helpe vnto Deuotion in Wks. (1620) I. 718 What coolers of zeale, what clogges in the way that leadeth vnto life.
1781 G. Crabbe Library 6 See coolers here, that damp the fire of rage.
1824 ‘P. Quiz’ (title) Fashionable Bores, or Coolers in High Life.
1907 News (Frederick, Maryland) 23 Aug. 4/4 ‘I am afraid of this or that’ is a terrible..cooler of enthusiasm.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute
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Tom1941
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a1632 T. Dekker Wonder of Kingdome (1636) i. i. sig. B3 Nico. Commend me to this Angelica. Carg. Angelica-water is good for a cold stomach. Nico. I am all fire. Carg. Shee's a cooler. Nico. Would 'twere come to that.
1725 New Canting Dict. Cooler, a Woman.
1749 Hist. Human Heart (1974) 154 You may find a Cooler before you get to your Lodgings.
1887 A. Barrère Argot & Slang 228/1 Larque, woman or ‘cooler’; a registered prostitute.
6. slang (originally U.S.). A prison, a jail. Also: a prison cell.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun]
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1872 Ellsworth (Kansas) Reporter 16 May 3/4 The point in dispute seemed to be the proper way to go to the cooler.
1882 Manitoba Daily Free Press 20 Oct. 8/1 That functionary..on searching him found the missing watch in the man's sock. He went into the cooler, and will probably be examined to-day.
1884 Milnor (Dakota Territory) Teller 8 Aug. Arrested on the charge of drunkenness, lodged in the cooler over night and then fined $5 in the morning.
1909 W. H. Davies Beggars vii. 52 We wanted a night's lodging at the police station. ‘What!’ he cried in amazement; ‘what: not in the cooler?’
1926 J. Black You can't Win ix. 114 The cooler or dark cell was the same as other cells, except that there was nothing in it and the door was solid, admitting no light.
1943 ‘C. Dickson’ She died a Lady ix. 73 I am not at a time of life when one enjoys being chucked in the cooler for telling truths.
1962 John o' London's 25 Jan. 82/2 The police station..is sometimes called the cooler, although the last word is also applied to a cell inside the nick.
1992 E. Feinsod Habits of Lifetime xxvii. 191 Despite eighteen months in the cooler I never really had thought of myself as a criminal.
7. Horse Riding. A light blanket designed to be placed on a horse after strenuous exercise to prevent it from cooling down too rapidly.
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1892 H. C. Merwin Road, Track & Stable xi. 318 The cooler is a long, thin all-wool blanket, extending over the neck.
1946 M. C. Self Horseman's Encycl. 92 Light woolen covers..thrown over a horse after racing, polo or other strenuous work while he is being walked to cool him down are known as ‘coolers’.
1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 16 Oct. The stable picked up a cooler and two jackets for each horse that ran.
2006 D. Snyder-Smith Classic Western Rider viii. 188 If the day has turned cool and you have a late run or two, be sure to use a cooler to prevent chilling.
Compounds
cooler bag n. = cool bag n. at cool adj., adv., and int. Compounds 2.
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1963 Washington Post 1 Aug. c12 (advt.) Insulated cooler bags, asst. colors.
1975 Darling 9 Apr. 95 Giant cooler-bags full of beer, cold drinks, packets of biltong and home-made salami sarmies.
1993 Guardian (Nexis) 7 Aug. 31 The star of my holiday shopping is a cooler bag containing a large slab of bacon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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