soap boiler

British  

noun

1. a manufacturer of soap

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• soap boiling
  noun

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soap boiler

To appreciate this witticism, one may refer to the New York directory of 1789, which describes John Slidell, the father of the Slidell of whom we are speaking, as "soap boiler and chandler, 104 Broadway."

From As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Gouverneur, Marian

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

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