Grinder
['graɪndə] or ['ɡraɪndɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, grinds.
(n.) One of the double teeth, used to grind or masticate the food; a molar.
(n.) The restless flycatcher (Seisura inquieta) of Australia; -- called also restless thrush and volatile thrush. It makes a noise like a scissors grinder, to which the name alludes.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Molar, molar tooth, jaw tooth, double tooth.
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Examples
- The kitchen coffee grinder and the meat chopper are other familiar illustrations. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The organ-grinder piteously put in his claim to a penny from the benevolent stranger. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In Figure 120 the water of a small but rapid mountain stream is made to rotate a large wheel, which in turn communicates its motion through belts to a distant sawmill or grinder. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The meat is run through enormous automatic grinders and choppers, and through mixers that approach a dairy churn in size. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Forty teeth, namely twenty-four grinders, four eye-teeth, and twelve incisive. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
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