GRINDER: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | 'grIndur
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| Matching Terms: | | Grinded, Grindelia, Grindelia robusta, Grindelia squarrosa, Grindery
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- [n] a machine tool that polishes metal
- [n] machine that processes materials by grinding or crushing
- [n] grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars
- [n] a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
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| | Synonyms: | | bomber, Cuban sandwich, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, mill, molar, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
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| | See Also: | | cider mill, coffee grinder, coffee mill, emery wheel, flour mill, grinding wheel, gristmill, machine, machine tool, meat grinder, pepper grinder, pepper mill, quern, sandwich, spicemill, tooth, treadmill, treadwheel, water mill, windmill, wisdom tooth | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Grind"er\, n.
1. One who, or that which, grinds.
2. One of the double teeth, used to grind or masticate the
food; a molar.
3. (Zo["o]l.) The restless flycatcher ({Seisura inquieta}) of
Australia; -- called also {restless thrush} and {volatile
thrush}. It makes a noise like a scissors grinder, to
which the name alludes.
{Grinder's asthma, phthisis, or rot} (Med.), a lung disease
produced by the mechanical irritation of the particles of
steel and stone given off in the operation of grinding.
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| | Related Terms: | | baby tooth, bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich, bicuspid, BLT, bucktooth, canape, canine, cheese grater, cheeseburger, comminutor, corned beef sandwich, crown, crusher, cuspid, cutter, Dagwood sandwich, deciduous tooth, dent, denticle, denticulation, dentil, dentition, dogtooth, double-decker sandwich, egg salad sandwich, eyetooth, fang, fore tooth, gagtooth, gang tooth, gold tooth, granulator, grater, grilled cheese sandwich, ham sandwich, hamburger, hoagy, hot dog, incisor, kominuter, levigator, masher, milk tooth, mill, millstone, molar, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, pastrami sandwich, peg, permanent tooth, pestle, pivot tooth, poor boy, premolar, pulverizer, quern, quernstone, rock crusher, roller, sandwich, scrivello, shredder, Sloppy Joe, snag, snaggletooth, steamroller, submarine sandwich, Swiss cheese sandwich, tooth, triturator, tuna salad sandwich, tunaburger, tush, tusk, wisdom tooth |
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