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Sealer   /sˈilər/   Listen
Sealer

noun
1.
A kind of sealing material that is used to form a hard coating on a porous surface (as a coat of paint or varnish used to size a surface).  Synonym: sealant.
2.
An official who affixes a seal to a document.





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"Sealer" Quotes from Famous Books



... inferior to subsequent efforts, were looked on as most extraordinary. The weight I lifted before the audience, with my hands alone, was nine hundred and twenty-nine pounds. This was testified to by the City Sealer of Weights and Measures, Mr. Moulton. My success induced me to repeat my lecture in other places. Invitations and liberal offers poured in upon me from all directions; and during the ensuing seasons, I lectured in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 • Various
... a time as clerk of the market and sealer of weights and measures. He did some repair jobs on Washington's town house. At the General's funeral, when Lieutenant Moss was unable to carry the heavy weight of the casket, George Coryell took his place as one of the pallbearers. He remained ...
— Seaport in Virginia - George Washington's Alexandria • Gay Montague Moore
... forty-eight hours before Thomas Jefferson had a first mortgage on every soul aboard the "Sleeping Sealer," from the cap'n to the oiler down in the engine-room. He was able, all right, but you couldn't have made an able seaman out of him in a hundred years. For all that, he did the work of three men. The first thing you heard when you woke ...
— Thomas Jefferson Brown • James Oliver Curwood
... together, but at last we came south, Jake and I, and struck the Kamtchadales again. We could talk to them, and one of them told us about a schooner lying in an inlet by a settlement. The Russians had brought her there from the islands, and she must have been a sealer. Jake figured it was just possible we might run away with her and push across ...
— Hawtrey's Deputy • Harold Bindloss


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