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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Taster \Tast"er\ (t[=a]st"[~e]r), noun
1. One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or drink to ascertain its quality.
Thy tutor be thy taster, ere thou eat. --Dryden.
2. That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like.
3. (Zo["o]l.) One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See {Siphonophora}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
taster
noun: someone who samples food or drink for its quality [syn: {taste tester}, {taste-tester}, {sampler}]
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