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pulverizer|ˈpʌlvəraɪzə(r)|
[f. pulverize v. + -er1.]
One who or that which pulverizes; an instrument or machine that reduces to powder; also techn. one that reduces a liquid to spray.
1836Fraser's Mag. XIII. 724 The high conservative, Fraser! the pulveriser of Voluntaryism, Radicalism, and Popery! 1847Illustr. Lond. News 24 July 58/1 For the best subsoil pulveriser, {pstlg}10. 1875H. Walton Dis. Eye 18 There are also spray-producing douches..absurdly named water pulverizers. 1888Pall Mall G. 23 May 12/1 The crushing of the ores by the pulverizer. 1956[see of prep. 43 b]. 1967Punch 6 Sept. 360/1 A small East Anglian local authority..would like to dump over 160,000 cubic yards of garbage in the four sidings... If they spend a further {pstlg}30,000 on a pulveriser (which reduces all forms of household trash to a quarter of its collected volume and renders the result unattractive to flies and rodents) this novel dump should last them for sixteen years. 1971P. Gresswell Environment 153 Giant pulverisers can shred a complete car to fist size fragments within seconds. |