An instrument for cutting cheese; spec. one with a broad curved blade; (in later use also) one fitted with a piece of thin taut wire.

any of various utensils or devices for cutting up suet.

(a) (see quot. 1875); (b) an apparatus for supplying ice-cream sodas, sundaes, etc.; a counter or an establishment of which this is a feature.

a machine for manufacturing sausages; also figurative, esp. with reference to an institution that is held to ‘process’ its members so that their…

An apparatus in which acetous fermentation is carried out in the manufacture of vinegar.

a device used for the extraction of honey from honeycomb, esp. by centrifugal action.

a length of thin metal wire for cutting cheese, typically having handles at each end; also: the type of wire used in such an implement.

A domestic ice-cream making machine, originally hand-cranked and now usually electric, in which the ice-cream mixture is stirred as it is being…