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slicer|ˈslaɪsə(r)| Also 6 sclycer. [f. slice v.1] 1. An implement or instrument specially adapted or used for slicing. Also in combs., as bread-slicer, turnip-slicer, vegetable-slicer.
1530Palsgr. 267/2 Sclycer, tournoyre. 1575Turberv. Falconrie 299 Take up the hawe handsomely and cut it with a little slicer. 1850Holtzapffel Turning III. 1098 Slitting Mill or the Slicer, is a very thin sheet-iron disk, the edge of which is charged with diamond powder. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2208/1 The slicer is firmly clamped, like a circular saw, between two flanges on its spindle. 1891T. Hardy Tess xlvi. (1900) 114/2 They were at some distance from the man who turned the slicer. 1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 215/2 The Sterling Slicer. Slices any kind of vegetable or fruit evenly. 1956F. S. Atkinson in D. L. Linton Sheffield xiv. 269 Intensive efforts are being made to replace the hand⁓loading of coal on to conveyors by mechanical power⁓loaders and, in seams over 3 ft. 3 in. considerable success is being achieved with Meco Moore Loaders..and Huwood Slicers. 1971[see plough, plow n.1 5 i]. 2. One who slices.
1598Florio, Tagliuzzatore, a slicer, a cutter. 1709Tatler No. 71 ⁋8 When a Witling stands at a Coffee-house Door, and sneers at those who pass by,..he is no longer Surnamed a Slicer, but a Man of Fire is the Word. 1778Ann. Reg., Projects 124/2 This man, who is called the slicer,..pricks it with the slicing knife. 1864Sala in Daily Telegr. 16 July, Young ladies..employed in the bureau as press feeders, stampers, slicers, trimmers. 1881Academy 8 Jan. 30 A grand Zoologist and not a mere hardener and slicer of microscopic stuff. |