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Sealer

noun

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.

An official who affixes a seal to a document.

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"Sealer" Quotes from Famous Books

... worth at least L50,000. Sometimes the profits were considerable. A certain merchant, who bought the plant of a bankrupt station for L225 at a Sydney auction, took away therefrom L1,500 worth of oil in the next season. But then he was an uncommon merchant. He had been a sealer himself, and finally abandoned mercantile life in Sydney to return to his old haunts, where he managed his own establishment, joined farming to whaling, endowed a mission station,[1] and amazed the land by importing a black-coated tutor and a piano for his children. Moreover, ...

— The Long White Cloud • William Pember Reeves

... dates here which will give you the career of the dead man, Captain Peter Carey. He was born in '45—fifty years of age. He was a most daring and successful seal and whale fisher. In 1883 he commanded the steam sealer SEA UNICORN, of Dundee. He had then had several successful voyages in succession, and in the following year, 1884, he retired. After that he travelled for some years, and finally he bought a small place called Woodman's Lee, near ...

— The Return of Sherlock Holmes • Arthur Conan Doyle

Words linked to "Sealer" : functionary, sealing material, seal, caulk, caulking, official