dismembratorn.
Something that dismembrates or disintegrates; spec. an apparatus for separating flour from bran, after crushing in a roller mill.
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bunt-mill1796
bran-duster1850
dismembrator1877
smutter1887
1877 Specif. Patent 4099 (Pieper) A dismembrator for flour mills.
1881 Times 18 May 6/1 To divide and scatter the crushed meal..the meal passes through a dismembrator, consisting of discs armed with pins or pegs, one rapidly rotating disc driving the stuff between the pins upon [another] stationary [disc].
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