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slusher|ˈslʌʃə(r)|
[f. prec.]
1. Austr. The cook's assistant on a station during shearing time.
1890Melbourne Argus 20 Sept. 13/6.
2. Mining. A mechanical device for loading or packing broken material in which a bucket is drawn to and fro through a pile of the material by ropes wound round a drum at each end of its length of travel.
1923Mine & Quarry July 1267/1 The contractor..has what is practically the double drum slusher in the ordinary drag line excavator and also in his back-filling machine. 1946Trans. Inst. Mining Engineers CVI. 115 Four scours, totalling 1,200 yds., have been driven with the slusher. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Oct. 1281/2 Diamonds... To mine them you need, among other things,..a double drum slusher. |