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

Example Sentences

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

O Philosophy, thou guide of life! thou discoverer of virtue, and expeller of vices! what had not only I myself, but the whole life of man been without you?

From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke

Lights flashed all over the house at once, from a sort of electric light system that could be instantly lighted and would act as a "burglar expeller."

From Constance Dunlap by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)

The reputed expeller of the last King of Rome; ii.

From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

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 Duncker, Max