trommel
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of trommel
1875–80, < German Trommel drum
Example Sentences
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On the other end of the property, volunteers fed yard trimmings into a giant metal trommel, the rotating cylinder sifting out big sticks and other extras.
From Los Angeles Times
The Environment Agency said the lock on the school's gates had been cut to allow Heaton access to dump Trommel fines, highly processed household waste which is usually taken to landfill as it cannot be recycled.
From BBC
His new album, “Die Trommel Fatale,” out June 15, passes you through a gantlet of anxiety, promising little more than cataclysm at the other end.
From New York Times
These range from Beethoven’s “Die Trommel gerühret” to Wolfgang Rihm’s “Untergang,” a contemporary setting of a nightmarish text by the Expressionist poet Georg Trakl.
From New York Times
Trommel, trom′el, n. a revolving cylindrical sieve for cleaning or sizing ore.
From Project Gutenberg
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