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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A machine consisting of a conical cylinder armed with teeth and revolving in a cylindrical casing armed with teeth on the inside; a devil. The stock fed into the machine is caught between the fixed and the revolving teeth, and is torn apart or opened and the dust shaken out.

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