expeller

American  

[ik-spel-er] / ɪkˈspɛl ər /

noun

1. a person or thing that expels.

2. a press used to extract oil from corn, soybeans, etc.

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Etymology

Origin of expeller

First recorded in 1570–80; expel + -er ¹

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Example Sentences

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expeller

This natural oil is squeezed from the plant using mechanical methods, such as putting the seeds or fruit through a press known as an expeller.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2022

Philosophy, thou guide of life! thou searcher out of virtues and expeller of vices!—he wrote as one of the mottoes on his little book of conduct, and to him the words were a living reality.

From Benjamin Franklin by Paul Elmer More

The pungent essential oil which it yields consists of a hydrocarbon, "carvene," together with an oxygenated oil; It is a "gallant expeller of the wind, and provoker of the terms."

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie

I am called the pure, the strong-winged, the mightiest, the swiftest, the powerful for defeat, the expeller of the Daevas.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Max Duncker

At a place called Weinsberg lived a man named Justinus Kerner, who exercised the profession of an exorcist or expeller of devils.

From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by Edmund B. d'Auvergne

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