fryer

noun

1. A machine or container for frying food.

   “He learned to work the fryer as part of becoming a competent cook for a commercial kitchen.”

2. A fish suitable for frying.
3. A young chicken suitable for frying; a pullet or cockerel.

   ““The Boasts have got such a head-start with chickens, likely they’re planning to eat friers this summer,” said Pa. “It may be she took a few cockerels out of this flock, looking on them as meat.””

4. One who fries.

   “The dolphin was also borne by the family of Fryer, with reference, as Mr. Moule suggests, to the fry or swarm of fishes (or was not their ancestor an excellent fryer of fish?); […]”

   “The sale is conducted on the principle of what is termed a “Dutch auction,” purchasers not being allowed to inspect the fish in the doubles before they bid. Offal is bought only by the “fryers.””

   “Of course this may be true, this story of the fryer of fish in the square San Antonio, but the man may have been lying to me—that is, “stringing” me, as we say.”

   “Ernest Gilpin, employed in the Summer White House kitchen at Cedar Island Lodge, wrote the Milwaukee Circuit Court that he would be unable to appear to answer charges of desertion and cruelty filed by his wife. He said to do so might cost him his job as a fryer of fish for the President.”

   “Now I'm an excellent fryer of eggs, and the way I do it - do you want to know how I do it?”

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A surname originating as an occupation.
2. (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in Caldwell County, Kentucky, United States.