Adjacent Words

Grinder definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GRINDER, n. One that grinds, or moves a mill.
1. The instrument of grinding.
2. A tooth that grinds or chews food; a double tooth; a jaw-tooth.
3. The teeth in general.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States [syn: bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep]
2: grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars [syn: molar, grinder]
3: machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing [syn: mill, grinder, milling machinery]
4: a machine tool that polishes metal

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century 1. a. molar b. plural teeth 2. one that grinds 3. a machine or device for grinding 4. submarine 2 5. an athlete who succeeds through hard work and determination rather than exceptional skill

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a person or thing that grinds, esp. a machine (often in comb.: coffee-grinder; organ-grinder). 2 a molar tooth.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Grinder Grind"er, n. 1. One who, or that which, grinds. 2. One of the double teeth, used to grind or masticate the food; a molar. 3. (Zo["o]l.) The restless flycatcher (Seisura inquieta) of Australia; -- called also restless thrush and volatile thrush. It makes a noise like a scissors grinder, to which the name alludes.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(grinders) 1. In a kitchen, a grinder is a device for crushing food such as coffee or meat into small pieces or into a powder. ...an electric coffee grinder. N-COUNT: oft n N 2. A grinder is a machine or tool for sharpening, smoothing, or polishing the surface of something. N-COUNT: oft supp N

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

grin'-der.

See MILL.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Molar, molar tooth, jaw tooth, double tooth.

Moby Thesaurus

BLT, Dagwood sandwich, Sloppy Joe, Swiss cheese sandwich, baby tooth, bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich, bicuspid, bucktooth, canape, canine, cheese grater, cheeseburger, comminutor, corned beef sandwich, crown, crusher, cuspid, cutter, deciduous tooth, dent, denticle, denticulation, dentil, dentition, dogtooth, double-decker sandwich, egg salad sandwich, eyetooth, fang, fore tooth, gagtooth, gang tooth, gold tooth, granulator, grater, grilled cheese sandwich, ham sandwich, hamburger, hoagy, hot dog, incisor, kominuter, levigator, masher, milk tooth, mill, millstone, molar, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, pastrami sandwich, peg, permanent tooth, pestle, pivot tooth, poor boy, premolar, pulverizer, quern, quernstone, rock crusher, roller, sandwich, scrivello, shredder, snag, snaggletooth, steamroller, submarine sandwich, tooth, triturator, tuna salad sandwich, tunaburger, tush, tusk, wisdom tooth