Definition of Crusher

1. Noun. A device that crushes something.

Generic synonyms: Device
Derivative terms: Crush, Crush

Definition of Crusher

1. n. One who, or that which, crushes.

Definition of Crusher

1. Noun. That which crushes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crusher

1. one that crushes [n -S] - See also: crushes

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crusher

crush party
crush pen
crush pens
crush room
crush rooms
crush syndrome
crushability
crushable
crushed
crushed leather
crushed rock
crushed sugar
crushed sugars
crushee
crushees
crusher (current term)
crusher gauge
crushers
crushes
crushing
crushingly
crushproof
crusht
crushworthy
crusian
crusians
crusie
crusies
crusily
crusotomy

Literary usage of Crusher

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"crusher and Grinder in Cross Section. crushers.—A jaw and toggle crusher is ... This is a satisfactory crusher for coarse, medium and fine crushing and ..."

2. The Mineral Industry (1899)
"The crusher is an "Invincible." In this the jaw' has a nearly parallel motion. ... Sturtevant Boll-jaw crusher.f—The union of a coarse and a fine crusher in ..."

3. The University Geological Survey of Kansas by Erasmus Haworth, Kansas Geological Survey (1904)
"Neither the crusher frame nor any part of the crusher support can be fastened to the floor timbers of the crusher room or, in fact, to any part of the mill ..."

4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"Both letters were confined to a crusher. What Coffman relies on, the postscript Itself, ... 6 Austin gyratory stone crusher" and other things going with it, ..."

5. State Geological Survey of Kansas. [Reports] by Kansas Geological Survey (1904)
"Neither the crusher frame nor any part of the crusher support can be fastened to the floor timbers of the crusher room or, in fact, to any part of the mill ..."

6. The Law of Personal Injuries in Mines: Including All Character of Personal by Edward Joseph White (1905)
"Same— crusher-feeder and miner. — One engaged to work in feeding rock into the crusher in a mine and a miner are so far engaged in the same common object of ..."

7. Cements, Limes, and Plasters: Their Materials, Manufacture, and Properties by Edwin Clarence Eckel (1922)
"A new rotary fine crusher, devised by the Sturtevant Mill Company, ... The following details regarding this crusher are taken from a recent catalogue. ..."

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