decorticate
verb (used with object)
to remove the bark, husk, or outer covering from.
decorticator
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a word derived from
decorticate.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 William S. (Scrugham) Lyon
