🥒 A food preserver 🚚 A de-icing machine 🧂 A salting machine

briner

1 8.7

A person who uses salt water to make pickles

noun
/ˈbraɪnər/

: salador

As a skilled briner, he prepares jars of olives and cucumbers every summer.

Examples

The family relied on their grandfather, the village briner, to preserve vegetables for winter.
The experienced briner shared her secret recipe for crunchy pickles with the class.
The briner prepared the vegetables for pickling.
Many briners prefer using natural ingredients.
The skilled briner demonstrated the process of pickling cabbages at the food festival.
Every autumn, the local briner offers workshops on how to make homemade sauerkraut.
She learned from her mother, a traditional briner, how to properly salt fish for preservation.

Synonyms

pickler

vsbriner

1 5.3

A person who preserves vegetables in vinegar or brine

works with brine across many foods, not only vegetables or vinegar pickling

curer

vsbriner

Specialized

1 7.2

A person or machine that treats food to preserve it and hardens materials

focuses on using brine and pickling specifically rather than many preservation methods

salter

vsbriner

Archaic

1 9.9

A person who preserves meat or fish with salt

uses brine solutions for preservation, including pickling rather than only dry salt

Surface Forms

briner singular

briners plural

Morphology

briner = brine (transparent) = brine + er

Agentive formation from the verb 'brine' (one who makes or applies brine) is a standard and transparent derivation.

Etymology

Briner comes from brine, 'salty water', plus -er, 'one who does', like in baker or driver. A briner is a person who makes or uses salty water to preserve food, for example when pickling or salting vegetables.