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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