scalder
1
7.8
A machine or person that uses very hot water to loosen feathers and remove dirt
- noun
- Specialized
:
escaldador
- To prepare the vegetables, they placed them in the scalder to remove any dirt.
Examples
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The spirit and the very ideas of Regner Lodbrog, that northern scalder whom I formerly quoted, occur to us again (Blair 82-3).
Academic text (1998) -
Their poets were distinguished by the title of scalders, and their songs were termed Vyses (Blair 6).
Academic text (1998) -
The farm uses a large scalder to remove feathers from freshly processed chickens.
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The industrial scalder heated water to clean the equipment effectively.
Synonyms
purger
vsscalder
1
7.5
A person or thing that removes unwanted parts to make something clean
uses boiling water or steam specifically to remove unwanted material
How Hot
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Scalder comes from the verb scald, which means 'to burn with hot liquid', plus the ending -er meaning 'one who does something'. So a scalder is literally someone or something that 'scalds' — a person or machine that uses boiling water or steam to clean or loosen unwanted material.