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Definition of Defecators
1. defecator [n] - See also: defecator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defecators
Literary usage of Defecators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Society of Arts by Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1866)
"On the proper setting one efficient management of the defecators depends the ...
Neither of the defecators has yet come into play, buta* of them is now ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"A modification of the system of double-bottom defecators has lately been ...
И double-bottomed defecators are used in sufficient number to allow an hour and ..."
3. Sorgho and Imphee, the Chinese and African Sugar Canes: A Treatise Upon by Henry Steel Olcott, Leonard Wray (1857)
"Over the other two flues the defecators are set, so that by dropping the damper
in the ... It is well to understand the proper setting of these defecators, ..."
4. Cassier's Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02877163] (1900)
"According to present practice, the juice flowing from the trapiche is pumped
either directly into receptacles called defecators, or is first passed through ..."
5. A Handbook for Cane-sugar Manufacturers and Their Chemists by Guilford Lawson Spencer (1917)
"The melted sugar-liquor is pumped to the defecators. ... The defecators or "blow-ups"
consist of iron tanks, usually of 3000 gallons capacity, ..."
6. Steam Engineering on Sugar Plantations, Steamships, and Locomotive Engines by James Stewart (1867)
"THE defecators. When the clarifier is full of juice, and after it has stood long
enough to come to the boiling point, it is let run into the ..."