grindern.

Brit.

/ˈɡrʌɪndə/, U.S.

/ˈɡraɪndər/

Etymology: < grind v.¹ + -er suffix¹.

I. An instrument for grinding.

a. A molar tooth; hence colloquial or jocularly in plural, the teeth generally.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > types or spec. teeth > [noun] > molar

wang-tootha1000

molara1350

cheek tooth1395

grinder1398

wangc1405

gumc1420

axle-tooth1483

wall-tooth?a1500

gum-tooth1535

chock-tooth1591

jaw-tooth1601

chaw-tooth1678

mill tooth1731

molendinar1823

true molar1825

false molar1827

premolar1842

bicuspid1876

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xx. 125 Some [teeth] hyght grynders, whyche..grynde alwaye as myl~stones the mete.

1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni 2 A iv The laste tethe: whiche be behynde them that we call the grynders.

1604 M. Drayton Owle sig. D Whil'st this slaue Bird his nastie grynders drest.

1767 B. Franklin Let. 5 Aug. in Wks. (1887) IV. 24 I return you many thanks for the box of elephants' tusks and grinders.

1786 J. Wolcot Bozzy & Piozzi (ed. 5) 41 Dear Doctor Johnson lov'd a leg of pork, And hearty on it, would his grinders work.

1819 T. Moore Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress (ed. 3) 23 With grinders dislodg'd, and with peepers both poach'd.

1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 95 The other ordinary Edentata have no grinders.

1887 W. Besant World Went xxvi. 204 Sit down... It is a grinder, and will take a strong pull.

†b. (See quot. 1799) Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1799 J. Corse in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 89 215 A grinder or case of teeth, in full grown elephants, is more than sufficient to fill one side of the mouth.

2. A machine for grinding (in various senses); the upper millstone or ‘runner’; †a muller or pestle.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering consistency > [noun] > crushing or grinding

mullet1398

mill1560

rammer1630

pulverizer1635

crackera1640

hand mill1656

grinder1688

mortar1733

pestle mill1773

pulverer1778

bruiser1809

smasher1822

muller1823

pug mill1824

crusher1825

pounding machine1839

pug1859

disintegrator1874

micronizer1934

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 382/1 The Inamel Grinder..is..an Agate Stone set in a Brass..socket with a wooden handle; it is to Grind..Inamels in a Flint Mortar.

1708 J. Philips Cyder ii. 54 For thy mill a sturdy post Cylindric, to support the grinder's weight.

1805 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. II. 10 A Roman hand-mill..was discovered in working a quarry, from the top of which the grinder had dropped.

1860 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (new ed.) (Cornwall Terms) 14 Grinder, machinery for crushing the ores between iron cylinders or barrels.

1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 386 One man..tends the grinder.

in extended use.1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xv. 99 The mighty grinder [glacier action] has rubbed off the pinnacles of the rocks.

†3. A muscle of the lower jaw. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > muscles of specific parts > [noun] > muscles of jaws

masseter1578

grinder1615

grinder-tongue muscles1615

temporalis muscle1676

digastric1696

pterygoid muscle1732

pterygoid1828

jaw-tackle1831

masseteric1836

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 757 The motion vpward is performed by the temporall muscle..; to the right hand and to the left by the first grinder called Mansorius primus.

II. A person who grinds.

a. A person who grinds anything in a mill.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > who grinds or pulverizes

grinder1483

coffee grinder1711

bruiser1921

1483 Cath. Angl. 165/2 A Grinder, molitor.

?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.vj Stryngers, grynders Arowe heders, malte men and corne mongers.

1611 Bible (King James) Ecclus. xii. 3 (margin) The grinders faile, because they grind little.

1756 J. Lloyd in W. Thompson Royal Navy-men's Advocate (1757) 51 I have..desired the Grinder not to pick his Mill so often.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxii. 184 The mills were few in number compared with the grinders.

1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. Grinders, men in the seed crushing industry who put the rolled seed under a pair of stones to be ground preparatory to being made hot.

b. A person who grinds cutlery, tools, glass, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > who shapes > by grinding

grinder1600

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xii. 66 The durt found in the bottome of the troughes of cutlers or grinders.

1639 J. Woodall Wks. (1653) Pref. 16 It is a base office belonging to meer Barbers and Grinders.

1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 32 With very little or no trouble in fitting the Engine, and without much skill in the Grinder.

1811 Ld. Byron Hints from Horace 485 I'll labour gratis at a grinder's wheel.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 591 This pyramidal muller, if small sized, bears at each of its angles of the upper face a peg or ball, which the grinders lay hold of in working it.

1870 C. Reade Put Yourself in his Place I. 177 The strike was over, the grinders poured into the works, and the grindstones revolved.

1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. Grinder, the man who grinds the wire teeth of the card sharp.

c. A lithotritist.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > healer > surgeon > [noun] > performing specific operations > on the bladder

stone-cutter1655

lithotomist1663

lithotriptist1836

lithotritist1836

grinder1846

1846 R. Liston Pract. Surg. (ed. 4) xii. 500 If he fell into the hands of the professed grinder, no matter what the peculiarities of the case, he was as certain to be subjected to the boring or hammering processes.

a. A person who prepares pupils for examination; a crammer.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > professional teacher > crammer

feeder1766

puffer1786

crammer1814

grinder1814

cram1861

cram-coach1885

1710 Fanatick Feast 6 The next was Cl——s, the walking Gerund-grinder, a noisie wrangling Sophist.]

1814 M. Edgeworth Patronage I. iii. 82 Put him into the hands of a clever grinder, or crammer, and they would soon cram the necessary portion of latin and greek into him.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. v. 43 She sent me down here with a grinder. She wants me to cultivate my neglected genus[sic].

1857 ‘C. Bede’ Mr. Verdant Green Married xi. 93 A medical student would have told him, that a ‘Grind’ meant the reading up for an examination under the tuition of one who was familiarly termed ‘a Grinder’—a process which Mr. Verdant Green's friends would phrase as ‘Coaching’ under ‘a Coach’.

b. = grind n.¹ 3b.

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1852 J. C. Patteson Let. Aug. in C. M. Yonge Life J. C. Patteson (1874) I. iv. 116 The difficulty is great enough to discourage any but a real ‘grinder’ at such work.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §825.10 Diligent student.., grinder, grindstone, grub.

a. A person who works under another. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to status > [noun] > subordinate

servantc1400

server1483

under-workman1608

under-labourera1667

under-worker1701

grinder1814

mate1840

grunt1908

report1973

1814 W. Scott Let. 7 Jan. (1932) III. 396 A sort of grinder of mine who assisted me in various ways.

b. A person who makes others work under him at diminished wages; a ‘sweater’.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > employer > [noun] > employer paying low wages

white slaver1843

sweater1846

grinder1851

scurf1851

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 233/1 Grinders, or those who compel the workmen (through their necessities) to do the same amount of work for less than the ordinary wages.

7. A bird that makes a grinding noise:

a. The dishwasher or flycatcher ( Sisura inquieta) of Australia.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > miscellaneous types of > sisura inquieta (restless flycatcher)

restless thrush1801

razor-grinder1822

grinder1848

restless flycatcher1848

scissors-grinder1875

1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. II. pl 87 Seisura inquieta, Restless Flycatcher..the Grinder of the Colonists of Swan River and New South Wales.

b. The night-jar or goat-sucker ( Cent. Dict., given as ‘local Eng.’; Swainson has only scissor-grinder, razor-grinder).

III. Informally: something that apparently involves grinding.

8. slang.

a. (See quot. 1837).

ΚΠ

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxx. 318 Mr. Jackson..applying his left thumb to the tip of his nose, worked a visionary coffee-mill with his right hand, thereby performing a very graceful piece of pantomine..which was familiarly denominated ‘taking a grinder’.

1870 Athenæum 8 Jan. 57/2 He finds himself confronted by a..lightly-clad Indian, who salutes him with what street-boys term ‘a grinder’.

b. U.S. (See quots.)

ΚΠ

1954 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Add. Grinder, a large sandwich made of two slabs of bread cut lengthwise from the loaf and containing ham, salami, or other meat, usually cheese, and pickle, tomato and lettuce, or other appetizers.

1967 Amer. Speech 42 287 Grinder,..one explanation offered..is that the consumer must be able to grind the diverse ingredients in his mouth.

9. Radio. An atmospheric disturbance of relatively long duration heard as a rumbling sound and probably caused by lightning.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > [noun] > signal > interference

cross-talk1887

static1905

X1906

statics1912

click1914

jam1914

grinder1922

hash1923

mush1924

echo1928

image1928

radio echo1928

harmonic interference1929

second channel1932

1922 R. Glazebrook Dict. Appl. Physics II. 1044/2 The British Association Committee for Radiotelegraphic Investigation..has classified strays [i.e. atmospherics] into three types, namely, clicks, grinders, and hissing.

1936 Nature 6 June 955/2 A very clear distinction was obtained between the atmospherics of short duration (‘clicks’) and the atmospherics of long duration (‘grinders’). The ‘clicks’..are due to local actions inside the thunderstorm clouds, such as short sparks which are not easy to detect by visual observations.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 390/2 Grinder, a type of atmospheric disturbance.., best characterised by its name.

Compounds

† grinder-tongue muscles n. Obsolete those which work the lower jaw and tongue.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > muscles of specific parts > [noun] > muscles of jaws

masseter1578

grinder1615

grinder-tongue muscles1615

temporalis muscle1676

digastric1696

pterygoid muscle1732

pterygoid1828

jaw-tackle1831

masseteric1836

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 762 The second paire are called Myloglossi or the grinder-tongue Muscles. They arise..from the sides of the lower iaw neare the roots of the grinding teeth.

grinder's rot n. Pathology ‘a lung disease produced by the mechanical irritation of the particles of steel and stone given off in the operation of grinding’ (Webster, Suppl. 1879).

ΚΠ

1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 244 Grinders' rot.

Draft additions 1993

Sailing. A person who operates a winch on a racing yacht. Also winch grinder. Cf. coffee grinder n. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > (types of) sail trimmer

afterguard1750

reefer1800

sail trimmerc1810

furlerc1860

sail looserc1860

trimmer1953

winch grinder1975

1975 R. Vaughan Grand Gesture 227 Driscoll took..the lead, and never relinquished it, matching Courageous tack for tack, one hundred and five times. (Ah, those winch grinders!)

1980 N.Y. Times 18 Aug. c8/6 Potts and Kyle Smith are grinders, pumping the handles of the winches that trim the jibs when tacking.

1991 Sports Illustr. 18 Mar. 27/1 What they did care about was, Could he backcheck? Muck along the boards? Fit in among the team's legions of grinders?

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	grinder
释义	grindern. Brit. /ˈɡrʌɪndə/, U.S. /ˈɡraɪndər/ Etymology: < grind v.¹ + -er suffix¹. I. An instrument for grinding. 1. a. A molar tooth; hence colloquial or jocularly in plural, the teeth generally. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > types or spec. teeth > [noun] > molar wang-tootha1000 molara1350 cheek tooth1395 grinder1398 wangc1405 gumc1420 axle-tooth1483 wall-tooth?a1500 gum-tooth1535 chock-tooth1591 jaw-tooth1601 chaw-tooth1678 mill tooth1731 molendinar1823 true molar1825 false molar1827 premolar1842 bicuspid1876 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xx. 125 Some [teeth] hyght grynders, whyche..grynde alwaye as myl~stones the mete. 1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni 2 A iv The laste tethe: whiche be behynde them that we call the grynders. 1604 M. Drayton Owle sig. D Whil'st this slaue Bird his nastie grynders drest. 1767 B. Franklin Let. 5 Aug. in Wks. (1887) IV. 24 I return you many thanks for the box of elephants' tusks and grinders. 1786 J. Wolcot Bozzy & Piozzi (ed. 5) 41 Dear Doctor Johnson lov'd a leg of pork, And hearty on it, would his grinders work. 1819 T. Moore Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress (ed. 3) 23 With grinders dislodg'd, and with peepers both poach'd. 1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 95 The other ordinary Edentata have no grinders. 1887 W. Besant World Went xxvi. 204 Sit down... It is a grinder, and will take a strong pull. †b. (See quot. 1799) Obsolete. ΚΠ 1799 J. Corse in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 89 215 A grinder or case of teeth, in full grown elephants, is more than sufficient to fill one side of the mouth. 2. A machine for grinding (in various senses); the upper millstone or ‘runner’; †a muller or pestle. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering consistency > [noun] > crushing or grinding mullet1398 mill1560 rammer1630 pulverizer1635 crackera1640 hand mill1656 grinder1688 mortar1733 pestle mill1773 pulverer1778 bruiser1809 smasher1822 muller1823 pug mill1824 crusher1825 pounding machine1839 pug1859 disintegrator1874 micronizer1934 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 382/1 The Inamel Grinder..is..an Agate Stone set in a Brass..socket with a wooden handle; it is to Grind..Inamels in a Flint Mortar. 1708 J. Philips Cyder ii. 54 For thy mill a sturdy post Cylindric, to support the grinder's weight. 1805 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. II. 10 A Roman hand-mill..was discovered in working a quarry, from the top of which the grinder had dropped. 1860 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (new ed.) (Cornwall Terms) 14 Grinder, machinery for crushing the ores between iron cylinders or barrels. 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 386 One man..tends the grinder. in extended use.1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xv. 99 The mighty grinder [glacier action] has rubbed off the pinnacles of the rocks. †3. A muscle of the lower jaw. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > muscles of specific parts > [noun] > muscles of jaws masseter1578 grinder1615 grinder-tongue muscles1615 temporalis muscle1676 digastric1696 pterygoid muscle1732 pterygoid1828 jaw-tackle1831 masseteric1836 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 757 The motion vpward is performed by the temporall muscle..; to the right hand and to the left by the first grinder called Mansorius primus. II. A person who grinds. 4. a. A person who grinds anything in a mill. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > who grinds or pulverizes grinder1483 coffee grinder1711 bruiser1921 1483 Cath. Angl. 165/2 A Grinder, molitor. ?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.vj Stryngers, grynders Arowe heders, malte men and corne mongers. 1611 Bible (King James) Ecclus. xii. 3 (margin) The grinders faile, because they grind little. 1756 J. Lloyd in W. Thompson Royal Navy-men's Advocate (1757) 51 I have..desired the Grinder not to pick his Mill so often. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxii. 184 The mills were few in number compared with the grinders. 1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. Grinders, men in the seed crushing industry who put the rolled seed under a pair of stones to be ground preparatory to being made hot. b. A person who grinds cutlery, tools, glass, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > who shapes > by grinding grinder1600 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xii. 66 The durt found in the bottome of the troughes of cutlers or grinders. 1639 J. Woodall Wks. (1653) Pref. 16 It is a base office belonging to meer Barbers and Grinders. 1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 32 With very little or no trouble in fitting the Engine, and without much skill in the Grinder. 1811 Ld. Byron Hints from Horace 485 I'll labour gratis at a grinder's wheel. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 591 This pyramidal muller, if small sized, bears at each of its angles of the upper face a peg or ball, which the grinders lay hold of in working it. 1870 C. Reade Put Yourself in his Place I. 177 The strike was over, the grinders poured into the works, and the grindstones revolved. 1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. Grinder, the man who grinds the wire teeth of the card sharp. c. A lithotritist. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > surgeon > [noun] > performing specific operations > on the bladder stone-cutter1655 lithotomist1663 lithotriptist1836 lithotritist1836 grinder1846 1846 R. Liston Pract. Surg. (ed. 4) xii. 500 If he fell into the hands of the professed grinder, no matter what the peculiarities of the case, he was as certain to be subjected to the boring or hammering processes. 5. a. A person who prepares pupils for examination; a crammer. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > professional teacher > crammer feeder1766 puffer1786 crammer1814 grinder1814 cram1861 cram-coach1885 1710 Fanatick Feast 6 The next was Cl——s, the walking Gerund-grinder, a noisie wrangling Sophist.] 1814 M. Edgeworth Patronage I. iii. 82 Put him into the hands of a clever grinder, or crammer, and they would soon cram the necessary portion of latin and greek into him. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. v. 43 She sent me down here with a grinder. She wants me to cultivate my neglected genus[sic]. 1857 ‘C. Bede’ Mr. Verdant Green Married xi. 93 A medical student would have told him, that a ‘Grind’ meant the reading up for an examination under the tuition of one who was familiarly termed ‘a Grinder’—a process which Mr. Verdant Green's friends would phrase as ‘Coaching’ under ‘a Coach’. b. = grind n.¹ 3b. ΚΠ 1852 J. C. Patteson Let. Aug. in C. M. Yonge Life J. C. Patteson (1874) I. iv. 116 The difficulty is great enough to discourage any but a real ‘grinder’ at such work. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §825.10 Diligent student.., grinder, grindstone, grub. 6. a. A person who works under another. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to status > [noun] > subordinate servantc1400 server1483 under-workman1608 under-labourera1667 under-worker1701 grinder1814 mate1840 grunt1908 report1973 1814 W. Scott Let. 7 Jan. (1932) III. 396 A sort of grinder of mine who assisted me in various ways. b. A person who makes others work under him at diminished wages; a ‘sweater’. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > employer > [noun] > employer paying low wages white slaver1843 sweater1846 grinder1851 scurf1851 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 233/1 Grinders, or those who compel the workmen (through their necessities) to do the same amount of work for less than the ordinary wages. 7. A bird that makes a grinding noise: a. The dishwasher or flycatcher ( Sisura inquieta) of Australia. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > miscellaneous types of > sisura inquieta (restless flycatcher) restless thrush1801 razor-grinder1822 grinder1848 restless flycatcher1848 scissors-grinder1875 1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. II. pl 87 Seisura inquieta, Restless Flycatcher..the Grinder of the Colonists of Swan River and New South Wales. b. The night-jar or goat-sucker ( Cent. Dict., given as ‘local Eng.’; Swainson has only scissor-grinder, razor-grinder). III. Informally: something that apparently involves grinding. 8. slang. a. (See quot. 1837). ΚΠ 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxx. 318 Mr. Jackson..applying his left thumb to the tip of his nose, worked a visionary coffee-mill with his right hand, thereby performing a very graceful piece of pantomine..which was familiarly denominated ‘taking a grinder’. 1870 Athenæum 8 Jan. 57/2 He finds himself confronted by a..lightly-clad Indian, who salutes him with what street-boys term ‘a grinder’. b. U.S. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1954 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Add. Grinder, a large sandwich made of two slabs of bread cut lengthwise from the loaf and containing ham, salami, or other meat, usually cheese, and pickle, tomato and lettuce, or other appetizers. 1967 Amer. Speech 42 287 Grinder,..one explanation offered..is that the consumer must be able to grind the diverse ingredients in his mouth. 9. Radio. An atmospheric disturbance of relatively long duration heard as a rumbling sound and probably caused by lightning. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > [noun] > signal > interference cross-talk1887 static1905 X1906 statics1912 click1914 jam1914 grinder1922 hash1923 mush1924 echo1928 image1928 radio echo1928 harmonic interference1929 second channel1932 1922 R. Glazebrook Dict. Appl. Physics II. 1044/2 The British Association Committee for Radiotelegraphic Investigation..has classified strays [i.e. atmospherics] into three types, namely, clicks, grinders, and hissing. 1936 Nature 6 June 955/2 A very clear distinction was obtained between the atmospherics of short duration (‘clicks’) and the atmospherics of long duration (‘grinders’). The ‘clicks’..are due to local actions inside the thunderstorm clouds, such as short sparks which are not easy to detect by visual observations. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 390/2 Grinder, a type of atmospheric disturbance.., best characterised by its name. Compounds † grinder-tongue muscles n. Obsolete those which work the lower jaw and tongue. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > muscles of specific parts > [noun] > muscles of jaws masseter1578 grinder1615 grinder-tongue muscles1615 temporalis muscle1676 digastric1696 pterygoid muscle1732 pterygoid1828 jaw-tackle1831 masseteric1836 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 762 The second paire are called Myloglossi or the grinder-tongue Muscles. They arise..from the sides of the lower iaw neare the roots of the grinding teeth. grinder's rot n. Pathology ‘a lung disease produced by the mechanical irritation of the particles of steel and stone given off in the operation of grinding’ (Webster, Suppl. 1879). ΚΠ 1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 244 Grinders' rot. Draft additions 1993 Sailing. A person who operates a winch on a racing yacht. Also winch grinder. Cf. coffee grinder n. 2b. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > (types of) sail trimmer afterguard1750 reefer1800 sail trimmerc1810 furlerc1860 sail looserc1860 trimmer1953 winch grinder1975 1975 R. Vaughan Grand Gesture 227 Driscoll took..the lead, and never relinquished it, matching Courageous tack for tack, one hundred and five times. (Ah, those winch grinders!) 1980 N.Y. Times 18 Aug. c8/6 Potts and Kyle Smith are grinders, pumping the handles of the winches that trim the jibs when tacking. 1991 Sports Illustr. 18 Mar. 27/1 What they did care about was, Could he backcheck? Muck along the boards? Fit in among the team's legions of grinders? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1398
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