单词 | pulper |
释义 | pulpern. 1. A machine for removing the external pulp or rind from the coffee bean. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > coffee manufacture > [noun] > machine for removing rind pulper1835 1835 B. M. Senior Jamaica 52 These ripe berries..go through a machine called a ‘pulper’, by which they are divested of the outside skin and glutinous substance between the skin and the berry. 1851 Househ. Words 26 Apr. 112/2 ‘Pulping’ is the operation of removing the outer husk, or ‘cherry’, which encloses the parchment-looking husk containing the pair of coffee-beans... [It] is performed by a machine called a ‘pulper’. 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 584/1 The berries..pass to the pulpers..The pulper is a stout frame supporting a fly-wheel, shaft, and barrel. 1937 Jrnl. Royal Afr. Soc. 36 196 In Costa Rica..the cherries are put through a mechanical pulper, which washes off the outer mucilaginous substance before it has had time to taint the beans. 1982 Amer. Ethnobiol. 9 312 Men sometimes buy hand-operated mechanical pulpers for use in removing the ‘cherry’ that surrounds the ‘silverskin’ bean. 2001 B. Geddes World Food: Caribbean 99 The process begins when the cherries are put through a machine called a pulper, where the fruit surrounding the bean is separated. 2. A machine for reducing fruit, vegetables, paper stock, etc., to pulp; a pulping machine. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering consistency > [noun] > pulping apparatus masticator1824 pulper1853 macerator1912 1853 Times 12 Sept. 3/3 New patent turnip cutter... Cutters, gauge, pulpers, and double-action in one machine. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1823/2 Pulper,..a machine for reducing paper stock to pulp. 1951 Econ. Geogr. 27 87/1 Reaping machines and elevators, chaff cutters, cake breakers, root pulpers, and a steam thresher were all to be found. 1975 N.Y. Times 20 Jan. 14/2 Machines roam the forest, snipping entire trees off at ground level and passing them through pulpers that consume 40-foot logs in nine seconds. 2006 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 7 Mar. fd1 Two of Legacy's hospitals replaced disposals with waste pulpers, which grind up leftover food and compostable garbage. 3. A person who makes or works with pulp, esp. paper pulp; a company involved in making pulp. ΚΠ 1884 Standard 13 Mar. 5/2 [Articles] ‘turned out’ of a papier maché pulper's shop by hundreds of thousands. 1921 Sat. Westm. Gaz. 26 Feb. 9/1 This series [of books] seems to have gone straight from the printers to the pulpers. 1988 N. Fountain Underground (BNC) 55 She got..a job in a fruit pulpers in Covent Garden. 2002 Mirror (Nexis) 17 Dec. 17 Alan watched 14,000 copies of Bouncing Back being pulped. ‘It looks like red porridge!’ he told a pulper eagerly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1835 |
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