Word Meanings - MASTICATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. One who masticates. 2. A machine for cutting meat into fine pieces for toothless people; also, a machine for cutting leather, India rubber, or similar tough substances, into fine pieces, in some processes of manufacture.
Related words: (words related to MASTICATOR)
- INDIANEER
An Indiaman. - MACHINER
One who or operates a machine; a machinist. - PEOPLE
1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx. - LEATHERWOOD
A small branching shrub , with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy. Gray. - INDIA RUBBER
. See Caoutchouc. - SIMILARY
Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South. - CUTTING
1. Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool. 2. Chilling; penetratinn; sharp; as, a cutting wind. 3. Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting reply. - CUTTHROAT
One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin. - LEATHERBACK
A large sea turtle , having no bony shell on its back. It is common in the warm and temperate parts of the Atlantic, and sometimes weighs over a thousand pounds; -- called also leather turtle, leathery turtle, leather-backed tortoise, etc. - LEATHERY
Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough. "A leathery skin." Grew. - INDIAMAN
A large vessel in the India trade. Macaulay. - CUTTYSTOOL
1. A low stool 2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister. - TOUGH-CAKE
See - TOUGHEN
To grow or make tough, or tougher. - INDIA STEEL
See WOOTZ - TOUGH-HEAD
The ruddy duck. - TOUGHLY
In a tough manner. - TOUGH-PITCH
The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper. Copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake. - LEATHER
1. The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively. 2. The skin. Note: Leather is much used adjectively in the sense of made of, relating to, or like, leather. Leather - PEOPLED
Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited. "The peopled air." Gray. - GRAMME MACHINE
A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight. - BURRING MACHINE
A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances. - STRAW-CUTTER
An instrument to cut straw for fodder. - EAST INDIAN
Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n. - DISSIMILARLY
In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart. - SWARD-CUTTER
A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower. - GLIDING MACHINE
A construction consisting essentially of one or more aƫroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground. - SCUTTLE
both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. 1. A broad, shallow basket. 2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod. - TRADESPEOPLE
People engaged in trade; shopkeepers. - SCRUBBER
A gas washer. See under Gas. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, scrubs; esp., a brush used in scrubbing. - LINDIA
A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoƶlogists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda. - DRUBBER
One who drubs. Sir W. Scott. - OVERLEATHER
Upper leather. Shak.