Masticator

Definitions

1. Someone who masticates.
2. A machine for cutting meat into fine pieces for toothless people.
3. A machine for cutting leather, India rubber, or similar tough substances, into fine pieces, in some processes of manufacture.

Equivalents

Examples

“If we can take⟳ the liberty of reducing Govani's clever phrasing and paper-thin beards to plain English, Linda Evangelista is a simpleton, Margaret Atwood is a pretentious bore and Angelina Jolie is a goat-like masticator.”

“We encourage⟳ their singing as much as we can," said the brother of the proprietor, himself a diligent masticator of the weed, who attended us, and politely explained to us the process⟳ of making plug⟳ tobacco; "we encourage⟳ it as much as we can, for the boys work⟳ better while singing.”

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