Chow"der (?), n. [F. chaudiere a kettle, a pot. Cf. Caldron.]
1. Cookery
A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together.
2.
A seller of fish.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
Chowder beer, a liquor made by boiling black spruce in water and mixing molasses with the decoction.
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Chow"der, v. t.
To make a chowder of.
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