Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument invented by M. Boland, about 1849, for ascertaining the bread-making qualities of wheaten flour.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instrument for determining the expansive properties, or quality, of gluten in flour.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
instrument used for theexamination ofcrude gluten as to its power ofdistending under theinfluence ofheat , as a means ofjudging of thevalue of aflour forbreadmaking .
Etymologies
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From aleuro- + -meter
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