wastemastern.
The name of a type of waste disposal unit. (In quot. 1963 a similar imaginary or futuristic device.) A proprietary name in the U.S.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > apparatus for refuse disposal
refuse destructor1880
refuse consumer1885
garbage disposal1928
wastemaster1946
garburator1947
disposal1953
waste-disposer1962
waste disposal unit1967
1946 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 5 Nov. 15/1 Wastemaster; Lockley Machine Co. For electrically driven garbage grinders... Claims use since June 14, 1945.
1949 House Beautiful Feb. 85/1 Choose from these disposers... Wastemaster—Lockley Machine Co.
1963 Punch 16 Oct. 569/1 The wastemasters were able to come into their own and people began buying—..for scrap.
1966 New Statesman 13 May 710/4 (advt.) Mais... 2 beds, k. & b., waste-master.
1973 A. Holden Girl on Beach 12 I suppose you've got a washing-machine and a clothes-drier and a wastemaster and a pop-up toaster.
1981 I. A. Gordon in N.Z. Listener 27 June 86 You know all about dishmasters and maybe even wastemasters.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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