fryer

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: fry=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

fryer, n. 

•  Something or someone that fries.  [1913 Webster]
•  A young chicken or other food item suitable to be cooked by frying.  [PJC]
•  A pot equipped with a removable basket, designed to be used for frying objects; -- also called deep fryer.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fryer, n. (also frier)
1 a person who fries.
2 a vessel for frying esp. fish.
3 US a chicken suitable for frying.

THESAURUS

fryer

Bantam, Cornish hen, banty, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, biddy, birdling, broiler, brooder, broody hen, caille, calf, canard, caneton, capon, catling, chanticleer, chapon, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chickling, chicky, cock, cockerel, colt, cub, dindon, dogie, domestic fowl, drake, duck, duckling, dunghill fowl, faisan, fawn, fledgling, foal, fowl, game fowl, gander, gobbler, goose, gosling, grouse, guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, hen, hen turkey, kid, kit, kitten, lamb, lambkin, litter, nest, nestling, oie, partlet, partridge, pheasant, pigeon, pigeonneau, piglet, pigling, polliwog, poulard, poulet, poult, poultry, pullet, pup, puppy, quail, roaster, rooster, setting hen, shoat, spring chicken, squab, stewing chicken, tadpole, tom, tom turkey, turkey, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, volaille, weaner, whelp, wild duck, yeanling