🍷 A wine vessel 🪨 A grinding tool

muller

12 9.9

A pot for warming wine with spices to make mulled wine

noun

Archaic

: caldero

Compounds

Geiger-Muller counter

Specialized

6.9

A device with a gas-filled tube that detects and measures radiation

Geiger-Muller tube

Specialized

5.7

A thin tube inside a Geiger counter that detects radiation

Surface Forms

muller singular

mullers plural

Morphology

muller = mull (transparent) = mull + er

Formed as 'mull' + '-er' meaning an instrument or agent used to mull (heat/spice or mix), so the instrument sense for mulled wine is directly derived.

Etymology

Muller comes from the same idea as the verb mull, which means 'to heat and flavor' a drink; so a muller is the pot where people mix and warm spiced wine.