taster

One that tastes, especially one who samples a food or beverage for quality.

Any of several devices or implements used in tasting.

One who tastes.

One skilled in distinguishing the qualities of liquors, tea, etc., by the taste.

An implement by which a small sample of anything to be tasted is manipulated.

A gimlet-shaped tool by which a small piece of cheese can be drawn from the center of the mass.

A hydrocyst of some polyps.

One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or drink to ascertain its quality.

That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like.

One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora.