Associations to the word «Trier»

Wiktionary

TRIER, noun. One who tries; one who makes experiments or examines anything by a test or standard.
TRIER, noun. An instrument used for sampling something.
TRIER, noun. One who tries judicially.
TRIER, noun. (legal) A person appointed by law to try challenges of jurors; a trior.
TRIER, noun. (obsolete) That which tries or approves; a test.
TRIER, proper noun. A city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the banks of the Moselle river.
TRIER OF FACT, noun. (legal) A person or group of people given the responsibility of determining the facts of a case from evidence presented in a legal proceeding.

Dictionary definition

TRIER, noun. One (as a judge) who examines and settles a case.
TRIER, noun. One who tries.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope