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mincer
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Word definitions for mincer in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mincer \Min"cer\, n. One who minces.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a kitchen utensil that cuts or chops food (especially meat) into small pieces [syn: mincing machine ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A kitchen utensil used for mince meat, etc. 2 Someone who mince. 3 (context British slang derogatory English) a homosexual.
Usage examples of mincer.
She turned abruptly, clouted a mincer across the head with a wooden spoon.
She turned back to the oak, keeping her voice and hands calm despite her terror, patting Oak as if it were a weeping mincer, or a kitchen dog.
One man clapped Mincer on the shoulder and received a blistering glare in return.
Harry Mincer, a consultant in forensic odontology to the medical examiner of Shelby County, Tennessee, testified that he did not believe the marks were from a human bite.
Look at the sailor, called the mincer, who now comes along, and assisted by two allies, heavily backs the grandissimus, as the mariners call it, and with bowed shoulders, staggers off with it as if he were a grenadier carrying a dead comrade from the field.
The mincer now stands before you invested in the full canonicals of his calling.
Never in my life had I seen such a country, a hellish misery of moonscape rubble that looked as though great slabs of chocolate had been put through a mincer, then flung with wild abandon by giant hands across the face of the earth.
Khuv looked back and saw him: the impossible gape of his jaws, the nightmare of his bone dagger teeth meshing like a mincer in the cavern of his mouth.
Had she the strength, Ellie knew she would cheerfully feed him through the meat mincer piece by piece.
The peelers and mincers and pluckers found their places under tables, among the kitchen dogs.
She dodged gardeners, dogs, guards, as easily as she dodged elbows, tossed spoons, and mincers waving mincing knives at each other.
The players, mincers mostly, and on the edge of turning into spit-boys, waited for Saro to pass, shaking wax and bones.
But nothing could wash away the dark vision in her head, the feeling that she no longer belonged to the kitchen, one of its familiars like the mincers or the cats, that no one outside would claim or recognize or even give a thought to.
The mincers, boners, pluckers, spit-boys and peelers fell on the leftovers like mice, then scattered again under tables, to the hearths, out of the way of the bakers and washers and the disgusted plucker who had to do pots, and who left trails of ash and grease behind her as she hauled dirty pots across the kitchen.
She turned, saw everyone, cooks, mincers, spit-boys, frozen over pots, knives, fires, staring at the kitchen door.