Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Oriental roller cotton-gin, made of two round pieces of hard wood fixed in a rude frame.
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Examples
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In India a primitive and cumbersome set of rollers called a churka partially cleaned India cotton.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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For the black-seed or sea-island cotton, the churka, or roller gin, used in India from time immemorial, drawing the fiber slowly between a pair of rollers to push out the seeds, did the work imperfectly, but this churka was entirely useless for the green-seed variety, the fiber of which clung closely to the seed and would yield only to human hands.
The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest Holland Thompson 1906
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