Definition of "blancher" []

• A machine for blanching or whitening. (noun)
• One who, or that which, frightens away or turns aside. (noun)

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• "The blancher is a large vessel filled with one hundred and seventy degree water."
• "Time to fire up the blancher and put another bag of beans in the freezer for T's lunches this winter ... :o"
• "The fries are then flumed out of the A.D.R. room to the "blancher.""