SEALER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sealer mean? 

• SEALER (noun)
  The noun SEALER has 2 senses:

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)

2. an official who affixes a seal to a document

  Familiarity information: SEALER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEALER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

sealant; sealer

Hypernyms ("sealer" is a kind of...):

sealing material (any substance used to seal joints or fill cracks in a porous surface)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sealer"):

caulk; caulking (a waterproof filler and sealant that is used in building and repair to make watertight)

Derivation:

seal (cover with varnish)

seal (make tight; secure against leakage)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An official who affixes a seal to a document

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("sealer" is a kind of...):

functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)

Derivation:

seal (close with or as if with a seal)

seal (affix a seal to)

 Context examples 

In 1883 he commanded the steam sealer Sea Unicorn, of Dundee.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sealer protein solution contains clottable human fibrinogen and bovine aprotinin, a fibrinolysis inhibitor; the thrombin solution contains human thrombin and calcium chloride.

(Fibrin sealant, NCI Thesaurus)

“We must club the seals,” I announced, when convinced of my poor marksmanship. “I have heard the sealers talk about clubbing them.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And it was of sealskin,—and he was an old sealer.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

High up on the beach of the second cove from ours, we discovered the splintered wreck of a boat—a sealer’s boat, for the rowlocks were bound in sennit, a gun-rack was on the starboard side of the bow, and in white letters was faintly visible Gazelle No. 2.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)