squeezer

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Ladle. Dredging Box The spoons for basting and mixing, and also the ladle, should be strong and well tinned Illustration: Lemon Squeezer The plain wooden lemon squeezer is the most easily kept clean, and is, therefore, the best.

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  1. One who or that which squeezes. Specifically— In iron-working, a machine employed in getting the puddled ball into shape, or shingling it, without hammering. (See puddling.) Squeezers are of two kinds, reciprocating and rotary. The essential feature of the reciprocating form is that a movable arm or lever works against a corresponding fixed jaw, the former representing the hammer, the latter the anvil, of the old method of shingling with the hammer. In the rotary squeezer the puddled ball is brought into shape by being passed between a cast-iron cylinder and a cylindrical casing, the former being placed eccentrically within the latter so that the distance between their surfaces gradually diminishes in the direction of the rotation. The ball, being introduced at the widest part of the opening, is carried forward and finally delivered at the narrower end, reduced in size and ready for rolling. In sheet-metal working, a crimping-machine for forcing the tops and covers of tin cans over the cylinders which form the sides of the cans. A lemon-squeezer.
  2. plural A kind of playing-cards in which the facevalue of each card is shown in the upper left-hand corner, and can readily be seen by squeezing the cards slightly apart, without displaying the hand.
  3. Alligator squeezer. Same as crocodile squeezer.

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