glazer
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8.2
- noun
- /ˈɡleɪzər/
- US
:
vidriero
- Two weeks and a day later, I was out of the hospital at last, and old Tony, the case-up foreman, told me I was a lucky bastard to land my present job on the cold storage fish glazer, which all the guys on the dock deemed something a little less polite than "cushy" work.
He showed me how to measure the window and we bought some glass and Glazer's points window putty.
- He showed me how to measure the window and we bought some glass and Glazer's points window putty.
Examples
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The glazer carefully measured the window frame before cutting the glass.
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After the storm, the glazer was called to replace the broken glass in the storefront.
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By the time they got spit out onto a table at the glazer's far end, they gleamed under a slick coat of ice.
Fiction book (1997) -
He worked as a glazer, specializing in custom glass installations for homes and businesses.
Synonyms
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8.7
A person who cuts and installs glass for windows and doors
A person who cuts and fits flat glass for windows and doors
A person who fits and installs glass in windows and doors
A person who makes or fixes glass for windows and mirrors
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Glazer comes from the verb glaze, which comes from the old word glass meaning 'glass', plus the ending -er that means a person. So a glazer is literally someone who works with and fits sheets of 'glass' into windows and doors.