Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The plant thrives in the South, but ramie has failed in the U.S. as a commercial fiber, for lack of an efficient mechanical decorticator.

From Time Magazine Archive

This decorticator is fed from a hopper and is made of a size and capacity to husk from 500 to 1,000 nuts per hour.

From The Cocoanut With reference to its products and cultivation in the Philippines by Lyon, William S. (Scrugham)

The passage of the cane to the decorticator gives rise to a small quantity of juice, which flows through two orifices, b', into a sort of cast iron trough, G, suspended beneath the vessel.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various