pulper

American  

[puhlp-er] / ˈpʌlp ər /

noun

• pulpers
  plural

1. a machine that grinds, shreds, or crushes paper, food waste, or other substances into pulp.

2. 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.

3. a company that produces pulp, especially paper or wood pulp.

4. a person who works with or makes pulp.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• depulper
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• pulpers
  plural

Example Sentences

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pulper pulpers

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

The first improved complete cast-iron pulper received in the island, was made for Mr. Jolly, from drawings sent home by Mr. Lambert to Messrs. B. Hick and Son, engineers.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds

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

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

Another American Guardiola Drier Disk pulpers vary in capacity from 1,200 pounds to 14,000 pounds of ripe cherry coffee per hour.

From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers