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hammermill

n. A machine for shredding or crushing aggregate material, consisting of a drum containing a vertical or horizontal rotating shaft or drum on which hammers are mounted. vb. (context transitive English) To shred or crush by means of a hammermill.

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Hammermill

A hammermill is a mill whose purpose is to shred or crush aggregate material into smaller pieces by the repeated blows of little hammers. These machines have many sorts of applications in many industries, including:

  • Ethanol plants (grains)
  • A farm machine, which mills grain into coarse flour to be fed to livestock
  • Fluff pulp defiberizing
  • Fruit juice production
  • Grinding used shipping pallets for mulch
  • Milling grain
  • Sawmills, size reduction of trim scrap and planer shavings into boiler fuel or mulch
  • Shredding paper
  • Shredding scrap automobiles (see automotive shredder residue)
  • Shredding yard and garden waste for composting
  • Crushing large rocks
  • In waste management

Usage examples of "hammermill".

He listened for the hammermill, but the mill was silent, although the odor of hot metal and a line of smoke rose from the forge chimney.

When he walked through the long archway beyond the door, he could smell the odor of hot metal, but the space did not seem excessively hot, not like the hammermill in Iron Stem.

Wendra drove the wagon past the empty vingt or more separating the pleasure palace from the nearest dwellings straight into Iron Stem, and then past the metal shop and its thundering hammermill, with the smell of hot iron drifting across the road and thin white smoke rising from the forge chimney.

The paper was plain white Hammermill mimeo, available in every Office Depot and Staples in America.