soap boiler

British  

noun

1. a manufacturer of soap

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Other Word Forms

• soap boiling noun

Example Sentences

How he would prize the fragrance of a little flower, condemned as he was to smell nothing but the dank, noisome effluvia of the soap boiler’s factory.

From Project Gutenberg

If you have not land to enrich with your ashes they can be disposed of to advantage at the soap boiler's.

From Project Gutenberg

At ten years old I was taken home to assist my father in his business, which was that of a tallow chandler and soap boiler, a business he was not bred to, but had assumed on his arrival in New England, and on finding his dyeing trade would not maintain his family, being in little request.

From Project Gutenberg

Everything was recycled: the fine cinder-dust was used to make bricks or sold as fertiliser, the bones went to the soap boiler, old linens were made into paper, the metals were melted down, even the pelts from dead cats had a price.

From The Guardian

His venerable shade will excuse me, if I tell in prose what, in the judgment of men who lived near a century ago, Dr. Smith was not: He was no almanack maker, nor quack, nor chimney-doctor, nor soap boiler, nor printer’s devil, neither was he a deist; and all his children were born in wedlock.

From Project Gutenberg