Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pulsating device or machine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A beater; a striker.
- noun The pulsometer pump.
- noun A small gravitating machine or shaker, used in diamondmining in South Africa and elsewhere. It works on the same principle as the jigger.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A beater; a striker.
- noun (Mech.) That which beats or throbs in working.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun astronomy Any
pulsating astronomical object - noun dated A
beater ; astriker . - noun engineering, dated That which beats or throbs in working.
Etymologies
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Examples
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But in the engine and power rooms he found the 16th and 17th aliens, both of who had also been paralysed into unconsciousness by the pulsator shot from the Drusus.
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Through application of Ara-type medication the Terranian doctors had removed the aliens from the paralysis induced by the pulsator beam.
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Made for the skincare professional, they come with a 5-year warranty, all marketing material, training DVD, manual, client consent forms, disposable pulsator covers and client eye protectors.
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Class rings are what make the strange noises in your washing machine and what you paid $35 to a washer repairman to retrieve under the pulsator.
The Ties That Bind...And Gag! Bombeck, Erma 1987
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You may recall when a tube of toothpaste for no reason manifested itself in the lint trap of our dryer and a live dog wearing pantyhose wrapped around the pulsator in the washer, obviously there before it left the factory.
Motherhood, The Second Oldest Profession Bombeck, Erma 1983
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I activated my pulsator, shoved off from the ship's hull and sailed headlong toward the station.
Planet Mechanica Scheer, Karl 1977
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I checked my spacesuit's oxygen and air-conditioning systems and grasped the control lever that governed my micro-pulsator drive.
Planet Mechanica Scheer, Karl 1977
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"So once and for all, Pucky, do I get to know maybe what an oska-pulsator happens to be?"
Plasma Monster Mahr, Kurt 1976
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On the one hand the oska-pulsator kept the plasma sickness away from them and on the other hand they had the means to cure it.
Plasma Monster Mahr, Kurt 1976
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I doubt if the oska-pulsator can be of much help to us in particular.
Plasma Monster Mahr, Kurt 1976
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