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
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
This removal of the shell makes a great difference in the oilcake, as the decorticated cake is more nutritious than the undecorticated.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" by Various
The disagreeable taste is from the coats of the seeds; the best kind is pressed out after the seeds are decorticated.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury
The species just described developed abundantly in August on the recently decorticated logs of Pinus ponderosa, on the south-western slopes of Mt.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
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
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
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
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
