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

This pulper is one of the most perfect in every respect that has yet been brought into use, the disadvantages belonging to the old machine having been entirely remedied.

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 Simmonds, P. L.

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

Walker, J. Handbook of coffee pulpers and pulping.

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

Passing on to the floor where the measuring was in progress, I saw immense heaps of ripe, cherry-looking fruit, waiting to be passed below to the pulpers.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

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 Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)