"extructor" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: extructors [plural]
Etymology: Originally a Brand Name Head templates: {{en-noun}} extructor (plural extructors)
  1. (food processing) A prebreaker.
    Sense id: en-extructor-en-noun-mB~vtEzX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 65 35 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 60 40 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 71 29
  2. An industrial machine for mixing, chopping, and kneading substances.
    Sense id: en-extructor-en-noun-xwxlzEV7

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1964, Fishery Leaflet - Issues 571-607, page 19:",
          "text": "The frozen fish were first reduced to about 1-inch pieces by one pass through a Rietz extructor (prebreaker).",
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          "ref": "1973, United States. National Marine Fisheries Service, Fish Protein Concentrate Information Packing, page 19:",
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          "ref": "1980, Food Processing Industry - Volume 49, page 58:",
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          "text": "Extructor: Continuously mixes and blends solids and liquids where paste and plastic masses are handled that are too viscous for the Scott - Rietz Disintegrator .",
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          "ref": "1976, Leon Lachman, Herbert A. Lieberman, Joseph L. Kanig, The Theory and Practice of Industrial Pharmacy, page 633:",
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