Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that grinds, especially.
  • noun One who sharpens cutting edges.
  • noun A mechanical device that grinds.
  • noun A molar.
  • noun Informal The teeth.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which grinds.
  • noun One of the double teeth used to grind or triturate the food; a molar; hence, a tooth in general. See molar.
  • noun One who sharpens or polishes cutting instruments: as, a scissors-grinder.
  • noun A grinding-machine; any implement or tool for grinding or polishing: as, an emery grinder.
  • noun The dish-washer or restless flycatcher, Seisura inquieta. See Seisura.
  • noun The night-jar, Caprimulgus europæus, more fully called knife-, razor-, or scissor-grinder, from the noise it makes. Compare spinner, wheel-bird.
  • noun A cylinder covered with emery for sharpening the wire teeth in card-clothing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, grinds.
  • noun One of the double teeth, used to grind or masticate the food; a molar.
  • noun (Zoöl.) The restless flycatcher (Seisura inquieta) of Australia; -- called also restless thrush and volatile thrush. It makes a noise like a scissors grinder, to which the name alludes.
  • noun local, U.S. A submarine sandwich.
  • noun (Med.) a lung disease produced by the mechanical irritation of the particles of steel and stone given off in the operation of grinding.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A molar.
  • noun A power tool with a spinning abrasive disc, used for grinding, smoothing, and shaping materials, usually metal.
  • noun A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
  • noun A kitchen gadget for processing coffee, herbs etc. into small or powdered pieces

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars
  • noun machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
  • noun a machine tool that polishes metal
  • noun a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States

Etymologies

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grind +‎ -er

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Examples

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  • I especially liked the “blow me” in Noddy’s first sentence. on January 31, 2007 at 2: 05 pm | Reply Teeth grinder from the South

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