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reamer

reamer

7.1
A kitchen tool with a ridged cone used to press and twist citrus fruit to get juice
  • noun
  • /ˈriːmər/
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  • "The chef demonstrated how to use a reamer to get every drop of juice from the citrus fruits."
  • juice reamer

Examples

  • "To make the recipe, you'll need to twist the orange against the reamer to release the juice."

  • Remember to breathe, pop that out again with our little reamer and we just kind of push it where we'd like it.

  • Usually, a pipe tool consists of a select, some reamer, and also a tamper.

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  • "When making fresh lemonade, I use a reamer to extract juice from the lemons."

Synonyms

juicer
vsreamer
12 1.4

A machine that squeezes juice from fruit or vegetables

is a manual hand tool using pressing and twisting on citrus fruits
squeezer
vsreamer
3 1.8

A small kitchen tool for pressing fruit to get juice

adds twisting action to the pressing using a conical ridged center
juice reamer
vsreamer
5.5

A kitchen tool that you press and twist to squeeze juice from lemons or oranges

is the same tool but named in a shorter, less specific form

Compounds

juice reamer
5.5

A kitchen tool that you press and twist to squeeze juice from lemons or oranges

How Effective

juicer
12 1.4
reamer
7.1

Surface Forms

reamer singular
reamers plural

Morphology

reamer = ream (semi-transparent) = ream + er

The connection to 'ream' is clear, but the specific kitchen tool meaning is not a standard derivation.

Etymology

Reamer for the kitchen tool comes from the verb ream 'to make a hole larger', and the ending -er means 'one that does', like in baker. A helpful way to remember the kitchen reamer is to imagine its pointed center 'reaming' into the fruit to pull out the juice, so a reamer is a tool for getting citrus juice.