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Definition of Grinders
1. grinder [n] - See also: grinder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grinders
Literary usage of Grinders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review by James Shergold Boone, John Henry Newman (1800)
"grinders rwe then completely cut the gum, and that dentition is not attended with
any ... time when the fécond fet of grinders make their appearance, ..."
2. The Manufacture of Pulp and Paper: A Textbook of Modern Pulp and Paper Mill by J. Newell Stephenson (1922)
"These grinders produce from 5 to 7 tons of air-dry ... Four-pocket grinders are
also in use. They are generally operated so that there are three pockets ..."
3. The Secrets of the Great City: A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the by James Dabney McCabe (1868)
"THE ORGAN grinders. Only a few of the organ grinders own their organs. ...
The owners of the organs generally manage to inspire the "grinders" with a ..."
4. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by George Woodyatt Hastings, Andrew Edgar, Charles Wager Ryalls, Edwin Pears (1866)
"Scissors-grinders.—These men work partly on a wet and partly on a dry stone. ...
A few weeks ago I visited 86 scissors-grinders when at work in the ..."
5. Cements, Limes, and Plasters: Their Materials, Manufacture, and Properties by Edwin Clarence Eckel (1905)
"CONE grinders; material crushed by revolution of a toothed cone or spindle ...
CENTRIFUGAL grinders; material crushed between rollers and an annular die, ..."
6. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"face of the skull shelving in front; the fifth and sixth grinders behind the ...
grinders large, lobed, the six upper with two notches on the hinder edge. ..."
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