Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which pulverizes; especially, a machine for breaking the soil, crushing stone, grinding grain, etc.
- noun In ornithology, a bird that habitually rolls or wallows in the dust or takes sand-baths; one of the Pulveratores.
- noun Also spelled
pulveriser .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, pulverizes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
pulverizes .
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Examples
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So far, they've prototyped 8 of the 50 Machines -- the tractor, drill press, soil pulverizer, torch table, hydraulic power unit, compressed earth brick press, walk-behind tractor, and 150-ton hole puncher.
Marcin Jakubowski: Open-Sourced Blueprints For Civilization 2011
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This is also from the same man who seemingly embraced the talent-trampling, TV-ratings pulverizer that we all know as American Idol while simultaneously promoting music artists in a concert that he headlined while remaining on the sidelines, simply to offer the general public the sounds of that soon to be obscure product - non-corporatized music.
Prince's Revolution: Ode to an Artist Anxious Black Woman 2007
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This is also from the same man who seemingly embraced the talent-trampling, TV-ratings pulverizer that we all know as American Idol while simultaneously promoting music artists in a concert that he headlined while remaining on the sidelines, simply to offer the general public the sounds of that soon to be obscure product - non-corporatized music.
Archive 2007-07-01 Anxious Black Woman 2007
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TERSTARAM Ground Breaker, a mobile (electric or diesel powered) earth pulverizer, with which the dry clay lumps in the raw material are disintegrated to produce a homogenious soil for brick production.
Chapter 10 1997
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Nevertheless, this type of pulverizer is one of the most efficient.
Chapter 9 1995
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Two major pieces of equipment are used: a pulverizer to grind the mud to the required particle size and a compactor to compress the mixed mud into the mould.
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Once we made a model pulverizer powered by tap water which could crush chalk into powder.
Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991
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Once we made a model pulverizer powered by tap water which could crush chalk into powder.
WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA CHANG, JUNG 1991
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TERSTARAM Ground Breaker, a mobile (electric or diesel powered) earth pulverizer with which the dry clay lumps in the raw material are disintegrated to produce a homogenious soil for brick production.
Chapter 11 1991
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Once we made a model pulverizer powered by tap water which could crush chalk into powder.
Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991
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