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- noun Plural form of
compacter .
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Examples
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The first time I saw snow in Manhattan, walking home from a show with D, marveling at how the flurries dazzled the stench and decay of garbage waiting to be absorbed into great trucks and compacters, not to mention hiding the gray that so often the city succumbs to in winter.
Nostalgia. « 2008
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After the surface was scraped clear and the runway beds established, the compacters went to work.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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After the surface was scraped clear and the runway beds established, the compacters went to work.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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We will shovel our squandered resources into trash compacters and furnaces.
Brothers and Sisters of the Conflagration... Hal Duncan 2005
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Majesty, and laws were enacted for the punishment of the compacters when found.
Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century James Napier 1847
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For example, our mobile hydraulic cylinders can be used to raise and lower turbines during maintenance operations and that our chip compacters (ph) for raising and lowering coal derricks (ph).
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For example, our mobile hydraulic cylinders can be used to raise and lower turbines during maintenance operations and that our chip compacters (ph) for raising and lowering coal derricks (ph).
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