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  • noun Plural form of distiller.

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Examples

  • Doing it in such an incredibly efficient way such that it takes only 2 percent of the power of convention distillers is new.

    Colbert and Kamen Solve the World’s Water Problems « Isegoria 2008

  • About one-third of the corn that is sold for ethanol production winds up as a byproduct known as distillers grains that can substitute for corn in livestock feed, but poultry and hog producers say they can use the product only in small amounts.

    Livestock producers face ethanol makers over cost of corn 2011

  • Meanwhile, the Candlers and the Shuberts on the other side—that is, the distillers, the brewers, and those others whose wet passions were pecuniary—achieved little traction with their larger constituency: a nation of drinkers long accustomed to believe that the whiskey on the sideboard or the beer on the saloon bar were no more a matter of government concern than the butter in the icebox.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • Meanwhile, the Candlers and the Shuberts on the other side—that is, the distillers, the brewers, and those others whose wet passions were pecuniary—achieved little traction with their larger constituency: a nation of drinkers long accustomed to believe that the whiskey on the sideboard or the beer on the saloon bar were no more a matter of government concern than the butter in the icebox.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • In the vicinity of large towns and cities, where the object is too often to feed for the largest quantity, without reference to quality, an article known as distillers 'swill, or still-slop, is extensively used.

    Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure Robert Jennings

  • There is a sauce au diable that goes with it; and the distillers are the chefs who prepare it.

    Cabbages and Kings 1904

  • There is a sauce _au diable_ that goes with it; and the distillers are the chefs who prepare it.

    Cabbages and Kings O. Henry 1886

  • About one-third of the corn that is sold for ethanol production winds up as a byproduct known as distillers grains that can substitute for corn in livestock feed, but poultry and hog producers say they can use the product only in small amounts.

    USATODAY.com News 2011

  • The RFA also points out that one-third of each bushel of corn that goes through an ethanol plant is converted into a byproduct called distillers' dried grains, which is fed to livestock.

    unknown title 2011

  • Most concoctions of this era primarily used easily found ingredients that would camouflage dirty moonshines and rusty iron pot still Gins of the day, currently these cocktails have made a sexy resurgence with high end, small batch, single barrel, velvety spirits from top name distillers from all over the world.

    Forbes.com: News Lisa Mogensen 2011

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