decorticate
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Whenever a machine is invented that will economically decorticate the Ramie fiber, its cultivation will become an important industry in this country.
From The Hawaiian Islands Their Resources, Agricultural, Commercial and Financial by Hawaii. Dept. of Foreign Affairs
He decorticated the Third Reich, cheese fanciers, gossip columnists and the Hollywood star system with equal and total frenzy.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is a rustic bench, much roiled by the birds, and decorticated and split by the weather, near the little gate.
From John Bull's Other Island by Bernard Shaw
The decorticated nuts were wiped dry and rubbed to a smooth paste in a marble mortar.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889 by Various
Andrew Knight observed that his bees, instead of laboriously collecting propolis, used a cement of wax and turpentine, with which he had covered decorticated trees.
From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin
Spun silk is now made in England from "Ramie" the decorticated fibre of Nettles after washing away the glutinous juice from under their bark.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
At Pisgah Forest, N. C., Paperman Harry Straus set up a plant to make cigaret paper direct from domestic flax, separating the flax fibre from the flax straw by newly developed decorticating machines.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ramie grows luxuriantly, but the lack of proper decorticating and cleaning machinery has prevented any advance in this cultivation.
From The Hawaiian Islands Their Resources, Agricultural, Commercial and Financial by Hawaii. Dept. of Foreign Affairs
The axis of the decorticating cylinder does not coincide with that of the vessel, B', so that the free interval for the passage of the cane continues to diminish from the entrance to the exit.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various
It receives in addition a cog-wheel, L, which transmits its motion to the decorticating cylinder through, the intermedium of a large wooden-toothed gear wheel, L'.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various
The entrance plates, D, are provided with 6 spiral channels, whose pitch is equal to that of the channels of the decorticating cylinder, C, and in the same direction.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various
