| 单词 | cake breaker |
| 释义 | > as lemmascake breaker cake breaker n. (a) a machine for breaking cake (in sense A. 4b) to feed livestock; cf. cake cutter n. (a); (b) (originally and chiefly U.S.) a utensil resembling a comb with long prongs and a handle, used for cutting a sponge or similar light, delicate cake by perforating and separating the cake without squashing it (now chiefly historical).With quot. 1807 cf. oilcake n. ΚΠ 1807 Norfolk Chron. 21 Mar. (advt.) Chaff Cutters at the usual prices. Oil Cake Breakers ditto.] 1822 Bury & Norwich Post 4 Sept. One cake breaker and chaff cutting machine. 1932 Chicago Tribune 27 May 19/2 Have you a cake breaker in your home? It's an affair with twenty or so slender five-inch prongs... Sink it into hot fluffy cakes and it cuts to perfection without smashing. 1944 K. S. Markley & W. H. Goss Soybean Chem. & Technol. 159 In order to increase the ease of water absorption, the hot cake is sometimes first run through a corn crusher or similar type of cake breaker. 2019 @chefschoolmiss 21 Feb. in twitter.com (accessed 7 May 2020) No, this antique kitchen tool isn't a torture device (or a comb) it's a cake breaker. It was used to tear apart delicate cakes like angel food. < as lemmas |
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