Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A machine for reducing roots, as turnips, mangel-wurzel, etc., to a pulp; a root-pulper.
- noun A machine for removing the fleshy pulp of coffee-berries.
- noun A pulp-digester, pulp-grinder, or pulp-engine.
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Examples
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If it was very poor and squalid, it was called a pulpería; if it was large, it was called an almacén.
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Food scraps and biodegradable napkins will be washed into a contraption called the pulper, where they will get, well, pulped.
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But an internal report from the House's inspector general found that composting dinnerware actually used more energy, because of the pulper and the hauling trucks.
In the House, compostable utensils replaced with old-fashioned plastic 2011
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"They find the guy grabbed that kid, they ought to string him up by his balls, " the pulper offered.
Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007
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Although, with NewsCorp being out several million dollars, and having to spend a couple more fire up the pulper, there go all those books maybe they will be going.
The Really Incredibly Clueless Opinion Column of the Day… « Whatever 2006
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Although, with NewsCorp being out several million dollars, and having to spend a couple more fire up the pulper, there go all those books maybe they will be going.
The Really Incredibly Clueless Opinion Column of the Day… « Whatever 2006
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Not impossibly, with 1 or 2 stripper cows, 1 pike of upland hay and requisite farming implements, e.g., an end-to-end churn, a turnip pulper etc.
Ulysses 2003
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· Wood waste, mixed with inorganic materials (cement, trass, lime, pozzolana) in a mixer/pulper machine, produce pulp cement boards for various non-loadbearing uses.
Chapter 4 1988
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The boliche is stocked with real liquor, the pulper-a with real food.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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This pulper is one of the most perfect in every respect that has yet been brought into use, the disadvantages belonging to the old machine having been entirely remedied.
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