cooker
(ˈkʊkə(r))
[f. cook v.1 + -er1.]
1. A stove or other apparatus designed for cooking. b. A vessel in which food is cooked.
| 1884 Health Exhib. Catal. 68/1 Gas Cookers in Work. 1887 Manch. City News 26 Feb. 4 The soup is prepared in a thirty-gallon ‘Cooker.’ |
2. A fruit, etc., that cooks well.
| 1887 Daily News 25 Jan. 2/8 They are a large, juicy apple, agreeable to eat and splendid cookers. 1888 Ibid. 17 Oct. 4/5 The best cropping apple..unequalled as a cooker. |
3. fig. One who ‘cooks up’, or dresses up (literature), manipulates accounts, etc.
| 1869 Contemp. Rev. XII. 53 Homer is called a ‘cooker’ of early ballads. 1888 Sat. Rev. 15 Dec. 702/1 He sometimes called their composer or compiler a ‘cooker’, who made a dish of floating poetic figments. |
4. That which ‘cooks’ or ‘does for’ any one (see cook v.1 4); a ‘finisher’. slang.
| 1869 Daily News 12 May, Jeames [writes] ‘I expect this will be a cooker for me.’ |