[f. FREEZE v. + -ER1.]
1. A machine used for freezing, or for keeping anything extremely cold.
1860. O. W. Holmes, Elsie V. (1887), 74. He had agitated a quantity of of sweetened and thickened milk in what was called a cream-freezer.
1870. Mrs. Prentiss, Lett., 4 July, in Life, xi. (1883), 350. Papa bought a new-fashioned freezer, that professed to freeze in two minutes.
2. Anything that freezes.
1845. Hood, To Adm. Gambier, ix.
| How should you like, yourself, in glass or mug, | |
| The Bog—the Bug— | |
| The Maine—the Weser—or that freezer, Neva? |
fig. 1848. Dickens, Dombey, v. The books precisely matched as to size, and drawn up in line, like soldiers, looked in their cold, hard, slippery uniforms, as if they had but one idea among them, and that was a freezer.
3. A sheep destined, when killed, to exportation in a cold chamber.
1893. J. Hotson, Lect., in Age, 30 Nov., 7/2. In the breeding of what are in New Zealand known as ‘freezers’ there lies a ready means of largely increasing the returns from our land.
