Grinder

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One that grinds, especially:
  • n. One who sharpens cutting edges.
  • n. A mechanical device that grinds: a meat grinder.
  • n. A molar.
  • n. Informal The teeth.
  • n. New England & Sacramento See submarine. See Regional Note at submarine.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A molar.
  • n. A power tool with a spinning abrasive disc, used for grinding, smoothing, and shaping materials, usually metal.
  • n. A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
  • n. A kitchen gadget for processing coffee, herbs etc. into small or powdered pieces
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who, or that which, grinds.
  • n. One of the double teeth, used to grind or masticate the food; a molar.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A submarine sandwich.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who or that which grinds.
  • n. One of the double teeth used to grind or triturate the food; a molar; hence, a tooth in general. See molar.
  • n. One who sharpens or polishes cutting instruments: as, a scissors-grinder.
  • n. A grinding-machine; any implement or tool for grinding or polishing: as, an emery grinder.
  • n. The dish-washer or restless flycatcher, Seisura inquieta. See Seisura.
  • n. The night-jar, Caprimulgus europæus, more fully called knife-, razor-, or scissor-grinder, from the noise it makes. Compare spinner, wheel-bird.
  • n. A cylinder covered with emery for sharpening the wire teeth in card-clothing.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars
  • n. machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
  • n. a machine tool that polishes metal
  • 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
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    machine tool    sandwich   
    Cross Reference
    grinders' asthma    grinders' lung    spring grinder   
    Variant
    restless thrush    volatile thrush   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    molar    sub    hero    spuckie    submarine sandwich    hoagie    torpedo    hero sandwich   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    binder    blinder    finder    kinder    minder    pinder    reminder    winder   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Sander    blender    lathe    saw    mixer    cooker    grindstone    chisel   
     
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