disgorgern.
/dɪsˈɡɔːdʒə/ One who or that which disgorges. spec.:
a. A device for extracting a gorged hook from the throat of a fish.
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1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling iv. 108 A disgorger..is a piece of metal or bone with a notch in the end.
1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) i. v. iii. §10. 337 Attempting, by means of the disgorger, to remove them while he is alive.
1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 62.
b. In the manufacture of effervescing wine: one who temporarily removes the cork from a bottle of wine after secondary fermentation in order to allow the yeasty sediment to be blown out by the escaping gas.
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1900 S. P. Sadtler Hand-bk. Industr. Org. Chem. (ed. 3) 207 With the sediment thus on the cork it goes into the hands of a workman called a ‘disgorger’, who, holding the bottle still neck downward, proceeds to liberate the cork by slipping off the agrafe, and when the cork is three-fourth parts out he quickly inverts the bottle.
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