froster

Noun

froster (plural frosters)

1. One who applies frosting.
   • A froster and a cake sealer had repeated attacks of dermatitis on returning to their work, although the cause could not be ascertained.1941, Oswald Fenton Hedley, Heart Disease in Philadelphia Cardiac Clinics, page 17
   • Julie was a froster, the glamour job at the factory. She wore her cute white hat cocked at a jaunty angle while working a big white bag of frosting, twisting it rapidly in her hands to create the various designs on top of the gâteaux.2016, Martha Grimes, Ken Grimes, Double Double: A Dual Memoir of Alcoholism, page 88
2. A kind of freezer for food.
   • To standardize his rapid-freeze process, Birdseye devised an iron container with steel plates. Within them he placed packages of fresh fish in a low-temperature brine refrigerant. Knowing that the public would be wary, Birdseye named the contraption a froster rather than a freezer.2004, Nancy Rubin, American Empress, page 140