soap boiler

British  

noun

1. a manufacturer of soap

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Other Word Forms

• soap boiling noun

Example Sentences

Crown 8vo, cloth  7/6 "The work will prove very useful, not merely to the technological student, but to the soap boiler who wishes to understand the theory of his art."

From French Polishing and Enamelling A Practical Work of Instruction by Bitmead, Richard

Finding, however, but little employment in that business, he set up as a tallow chandler and soap boiler.

From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

A small master weaver or nail manufacturer, or soap boiler or potter, would also have a little farm and divide his time between the two occupations.

From An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Cheyney, Edward Potts

The dinner and its guests and its setting were calculated to impress the son of the Boston soap boiler who represented the important colonies in America.

From In the Days of Poor Richard by Bacheller, Irving

His father was a tallow chandler and soap boiler, a trade which Benjamin detested.

From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Morris, Charles