potato-smasher

She says he likes to have the potato-smasher right by his place at the table 'n' pound the meat to make more juice come out, 'n' she says it 's been nothin 'but a joy to her always to let him, 'cause his father died when he wa'n't but eleven months old.

Susan Clegg and Her Neighbors' Affairs Anne Warner 1891

But she says she just knows Lucy 'll be death on Hiram's potato-smasher,' n 'she says she most feels as if Lucy was goin' to be death on Hiram, too.

Susan Clegg and Her Neighbors' Affairs Anne Warner 1891

(sent back to their German master's by the ingenious commandoes - with ticking potato-smasher hand grenades in their mouths).

davekehr.com 2008