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decorticate

[dee-kawr-ti-kayt] / diˈkɔr tɪˌkeɪt /
VERB
remove skin
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Antonyms
STRONG


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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

They use much pottage made of coal-wort, which they call keal, sometimes broth of decorticated barley.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray

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

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

They use much pottage made of coal-wort, which they call kail, sometimes broth of decorticated barley.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

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 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

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 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

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


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