Manducator

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Something used for manducating. rare

    "Now if any Transatlantic Philistine can crack the shell of this German nut, and extract an eatable kernel, he must possess a manducator pretty considerably stronger than that with which Samson cracked the skulls of the ancient Philistines in the Holy Land—the jaw-bone of an ass."

  2. 2
    One who manducates. rare

    "Manducators, man´-du-ka-turz, s. pl. lud."

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"Now if any Transatlantic Philistine can crack the shell of this German nut, and extract an eatable kernel, he must possess a manducator pretty considerably stronger than that with which Samson cracked the skulls of the ancient Philistines in the Holy Land—the jaw-bone of an ass."

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