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shredder|ˈʃrɛdə(r)|
[f. shred v. + -er1.
Cf. OFris. skrêdere clipper of coin, MLG. schrôder, schrâder (LG. schröder) pruner, etc., also tailor (whence Da. skrædder, Sw. skräddare), MHG. schrôtære (mod.G. schröter) now chiefly in sense ‘stag-beetle’.]
†1. A lopper or pruner of trees. Obs.
1589Fleming Virg. Ecl. i. note i, The lopper or shredder of trees. 1631J. Anchoran Comenius' Gate Tongues 69 A lopper or shredder seates and putteth young graffs, sciences, shootes and twigges to a seed plot.
†2. One who utters ‘scraps’. Obs.
1592Nashe Strange Newes K 1 b, The short shredder out of sandy sentences without lime.
3. An instrument for shredding; † a pruning-knife; a machine for reducing a substance to shreds; spec., a machine for reducing documents to small unreadable fragments.
1572in Midland Counties Hist. Coll. II. 363 Item two billes & a shredder iiijd. 1887American XIV. 24 The use of a shredder for reducing the canes to a pulp. 1950[see shred v. 4 b]. 1962,1973[see paper shredder s.v. paper n. 12]. 1977New Yorker 27 June 23/1 Papers were discussed behind sealed doors..and tossed into shredders.
†4. A front tooth, an incisor. Obs.
1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 138 The Fore-teeth or Shredders. 1683Snape Anat. Horse v. vi. (1686) 210 The Incisores, Cutters or Shredders. |