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huller

1 7.4

A small hand tool that removes stems and cores from soft fruit like strawberries

noun
/ˈhʌlər/

: desinfectadora

Before adding the strawberries to the salad, I carefully used a huller to clean them.

Examples

To make the dessert, I used a huller to remove the tops from the strawberries.
She preferred using a huller because it made preparing the fruit much easier.
An item that looks good, but you would use it once, realize that it is a pain in the butt, and throw it in the drawer with all the other things that you used just once, like the strawberry huller, the sandwich crimper, the bamboo tongs to remove toast from the toaster, etc.

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Synonyms

corer

vshuller

1 3.0

A kitchen tool that takes out the hard centre of apples and pears

is a small handheld tool for soft fruits and stems

stemmer

vshuller

Specialized

9.1

A machine that removes stems from fruit like grapes or apples

is a small handheld tool used by hand rather than a machine

pitter

vshuller

6.2

A tool that removes the hard stone from fruit like cherries

is for soft fruits and removes stems or cores not hard stones

Surface Forms

huller singular

hullers plural

Morphology

huller = hull (transparent) = hull + er

Agent/instrument formation from 'hull' + '-er' producing a small tool used for hulling fruit; meaning is straightforward.

Etymology

The word huller comes from hull ('shell' or 'outer covering') and the ending -er ('one that does'). So a small hand huller is a tool that removes stems, cores, or the outer part of soft fruit like strawberries.