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Brewer   /brˈuər/   Listen
Brewer

noun
1.
Someone who brews beer or ale from malt and hops and water.  Synonym: beer maker.
2.
The owner or manager of a brewery.



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"Brewer" Quotes from Famous Books



... a majority, and the Conclave was prolonged almost indefinitely, to the great fatigue of the cardinals. So it happened one day that a cardinal, more tired than the rest, proposed to elect, instead of either Medici or Colonna, the son, some say of a weaver, others of a brewer of Utrecht, of whom no one had ever thought till then, and who was for the moment acting head of affairs in Spain, in the absence of Charles the Fifth. The jest prospered in the ears of those who heard it; all the cardinals approved their colleague's proposal, and ...
— The Cenci - Celebrated Crimes • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... sweat of your brow, as better people are obliged to. You would make a fine brewer's boy, if you were ...
— McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey

... giving securities, or bail, to answer an accusation, is a custom (says Brewer) which appears to have been coeval with the Saxon nation. This system was, indeed, subsequently carried by the Saxons to a burthensome and degrading height—not being confined to those who were accused of crime, but extending to the whole community, ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 472 - Vol. XVII. No. 472., Saturday, January 22, 1831 • Various

... the engine bucket foamed alluringly, then plugging it up again, and drawing back the hoop into its original position. On delivery the consignee might complain of short weight, but that it was a question for the brewer and the company to settle as best they could. None of the running staff knew anything about it; and, as for the lateness of the train, well, was any train ever punctual in those days, and who bothered ...
— The Story of the Cambrian - A Biography of a Railway • C. P. Gasquoine

... But, in addition to this, the unhappy man had, unwittingly, and with the vehemence of his ill-ordered nature, grown to love the poison-draught brewed for his enemy! When the enemy's lips touched the cup, did Manetho first become aware that it brimmed with the brewer's own life-blood! ...
— Idolatry - A Romance • Julian Hawthorne


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