Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which masticates or chews.
- noun An attachment to a feed-cutter. It crushes, shreds, and mixes hay, corn, or other material cut in the feed-cutter, and is designed to render the feed more digestible and palatable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who masticates.
- noun A machine for cutting meat into fine pieces for toothless people; also, a machine for cutting leather, India rubber, or similar tough substances, into fine pieces, in some processes of manufacture.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who
masticates . - noun A
machine for cutting meat into fine pieces for toothless people. - noun A machine for cutting leather, India rubber, or similar tough substances, into fine pieces, in some processes of manufacture.
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Examples
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Looks quite bad but then again the quality is horrible masticator on Jan 8, 2010
First Unofficial Trailer for Joe Carnahan's The A-Team Leaks « FirstShowing.net 2010
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Not only that, but people in the know tell me John McCain is also a chronic public masticator.
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Beets are evil – sure looks pretty though masticator says:
Beet Budino No-No 2008
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And although I still find it a secret thrill, when I am found out to be a masticator, I am filled with shame, even more so when discovered in flagrante deglutition.
"Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself..." Ann Althouse 2008
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Little Johnny Bold had been troubled for the last few days with his first incipient masticator, and with that freemasonry which exists among ladies,
Barchester Towers 2004
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And so usually they become versions of pastoral, with the urban masticator being whisked into a world where kitchen and garden co-exist in harmonious union instead of being mediated by the Safeway, the can, the freezer, and the poison list on the back of every package.
Gastro-Porn Cockburn, Alexander 1977
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By being "unemployed" it is presumed that he was not engaged in the ordinary avocations of life, or in other words was not engaged in those legitimate avocations which have for their object the procuring the means of subsistence for the masticator; but if it is meant to have a name of extensive meaning, the solution is unanswerable.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 376, June 20, 1829 Various
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For a consistent and perseverin 'masticator, she has our friend Fletcher chewed to a standstill.
Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907
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Little Johnny Bold had been troubled for the last few days with his first incipient masticator, and with that freemasonry which exists among ladies, Miss
Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope 1848
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His dog, Cooper, rides along in the cab of the masticator with him.
TimesCall.com 2009
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