2. Noun. A device which foams or froths liquid ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foamer
1. one that foams [n -S] - See also: foams
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foamer
Literary usage of Foamer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Humbler Poets: A Collection of Newspaper and Periodical Verse, 1870 to 1885 by Slason Thompson (1899)
"Thou art golden of gleam as the summer That smiled o'er a tropical sod, 0 daughter
of Bacchus, the bummer, A foamer, a volatile tod ! ..."
2. The Exchequer Reports: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, John Paxton Norman (1858)
"But it is said that the last clause suspends the operation of the foamer clause.
We think it has not that effect; that it is merely subordinate, ..."
3. The Greek anthology by William Roger Paton (1919)
"No longer, foamer, shalt thou take the Nereids on thy back as of yore and carry
them to the realms of Tethys ; for the waves when they rose high as the ..."
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