pulper
Americannoun
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pulpers
plural
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a machine that grinds, shreds, or crushes paper, food waste, or other substances into pulp.
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a machine that separates the desirable parts of a fruit, such as citrus juice or coffee beans, from the undesirable parts, such as the rind or flesh.
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a company that produces pulp, especially paper or wood pulp.
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a person who works with or makes pulp.
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Melissa: Glass is the enemy of the drum pulper, damaging its insides.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
In 2022, the company dedicated a $50 million state-of-the-art drum pulper to spin and separate usable pulp from all the other stuff that cannot be recycled.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
"If you run a pulper, do you want paper cups? No," says Dr. Martin Mulvihill, chemist, green packaging expert and advisor on the FoodPrint of Food Packaging Report.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2022
How long will it be before EDF, as McDonalds and the Tasmanian rainforest pulper Gunns did, finds itself going cap-in-hand to the people it's suing, begging for permission to drop the case?
From The Guardian ● Feb. 28, 2013
Marcus Mason invented his first pulper in 1860; but the manufacture of coffee-plantation machinery under the firm name of Marcus Mason & Co. did not begin in the United States until 1873.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
They would in part substitute for the hand-cranked pulpers and cumbersome method of soaking.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2012
Few publishers are known to have sent books to the pulpers.
From Time Magazine Archive
They, too, are made in combinations employing cylindrical separators, shaking sieves, and repassing pulpers, for completing the pulping of all unpulped or partially pulped cherries.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
Some cylinder pulpers are double, being equipped with rotary screens or oscillating sieves, that segregate the imperfectly pulped cherries so that they may be put through again.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
Walker, J. Handbook of coffee pulpers and pulping.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
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