Meaning of Trier | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who tries; one who makes experiments or examines anything by a test or standard.
2. A city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the banks of the Moselle river.
   countable, uncountable
3. An instrument used for sampling something.
4. A habitational surname from German.
   countable, uncountable
5. One who tries judicially.
6. A person appointed by law to try challenges of jurors; a trior.
7. That which tries or approves; a test.
   obsolete

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Examples

“[…] I had once brought me a certain Earth, by a Gentleman that digg'd it up in this, or ſome neighboring Country, vvhich, though it ſeem'd but a Mineral Earth, did really afford, to a very expert tryer of Metals of my acquaintance, a not deſpicable proportion of Gold.”

“The judge should grasp the butter trier firmly in hand and insert the sampling device as near as possible to the center of the butter sample.”

“Nay, mother, / Where is your ancient courage? you were us'd / To say, extremity was the trier of spirits”

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