Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kitchen press for extracting the juices of meats in making meat extracts, beef-tea, etc.
- noun A machine with rollers through which skins are wrung to remove the surplus water after they have been soaked.
- noun One who or that which extracts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, extracts.
- noun (Surg.) A forceps or instrument for extracting substances.
- noun (Breech-loading Firearms) A device for withdrawing a cartridge or spent cartridge shell from the chamber of the barrel.
- noun A centrifugal drying machine.
- noun (Apiculture) A machine for clearing combs of honey; also, a device for rendering wax.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun   Any of various mechanical devices that extract a component from others
- noun chemistry  An apparatus that uses a solvent to remove soluble substances from a mixture
- noun   A part of the bolt that removes acartridge from thechamber 
- noun graph theory  a particular kind of bipartite graph 
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mechanism in a firearm that pulls an empty shell case out of the chamber and passes it to the ejector
- noun an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension
- noun an instrument for extracting tight-fitting components
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