- a variation of fryer.
frier
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Last year there were fifteen people, five hundred chicken wings, one deep frier, one turkey and everyone pitched in to prepare and clean up.
From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2017
They were right out of the frier, fresh and warm.
From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2014
Secretary Wilbur, calm frier of big fish, was not perturbed at this congressional outburst.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A frier was sent to me, and led me into it.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
These are of very rare occurrence, as is also the monk-fish, or Sea Friar, which Randle Holme tells us ‘is a fish in form of a frier.’
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
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