Lexic.us

Definition of Meat grinder

1. Noun. A mill for grinding meat.

2. Noun. Any action resulting in injury or destruction. "Allied forces crumbled before the Wehrmacht meat grinder"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meat Grinder

measuring worms measuringly meat-and-potatoes meat-eating meat-eating(a) meat-packing business meat-packing industry meat-space meat and potatoes meat cleaver

meat counter meat draw meat grinder (current term) meat hook meat hooks meat house meat loaf meat markets meat packer meat packing

meat pie meat pies meat puppets

Literary usage of Meat grinder

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

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"MILLER, P. The action is ex delicto for the loss of plaintiff's hand, due to the alleged negligence of defendant in furnishing him a defective meat grinder ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1912)
"I see a little machine which look[s] much like a meat grinder but I see coffee put in it and then hear a noise of grinding and in this room are many other ..."

3. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann, Henry Larned Keith Shaw, Linnæus Edford La Fétra, Luther Emmett Holt (1912)
"Take one-fourth of an old fowl (or one-half of an old pigeon), pass through meat-grinder, add some soup greens and cook in § litre (1J pts. ..."

4. Domestic Science by Bertha J. Hoisington Austin (1914)
"Put the pieces of meat through the meat grinder. Place the bowl on a chair underneath the meat grinder to catch the juice. The juice contains protein and ..."

5. Nutrition and Dietetics: A Manual for Students of Medicine, for Trained by Winfield Scott Hall (1910)
"(3) Grind raw beef in a meat grinder. Place in a jar with a light cover and add one gill of cold water to a pound of beef. Stand it on ice overnight. ..."

6. Recipes and Menus for Fifty by Frances Lowe Smith (1913)
"Put veal and bacon through meat grinder, season well, and moisten with enough stock to pack. Put in brick-shaped pans, set pans in larger ones containing ..."

7. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1914)
"Fresh Achilles tendons of oxen were freed as carefully as possible from all adherent tissues, cut into small pieces and ground in a meat grinder. ..."

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