decorticate

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

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

The decorticated kernels gave a perfectly sweet, inodorous, and almost colorless oil, which rapidly thickens to an almost colorless, transparent, and perfectly elastic skin or film, which does not darken or crack easily by age.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889 by Various

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

These remarks apply only to the shelled, or decorticated seed-cake, for the article prepared from the whole seed is of very inferior composition, and should never be employed.

From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Sir Charles Alexander Cameron

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

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

The outlay for fencing against wandering flocks of goats and for decorticating machinery and other expenses would deter the ordinary cultivator from planting, and this could only be profitably undertaken if ample capital were forthcoming.

From Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products by William Bevan

Many copra-making plants in India and Ceylon are now supplied with decorticating, breaking, and evaporating machinery.

From The Cocoanut With reference to its products and cultivation in the Philippines by William S. (Scrugham) Lyon

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