decorticate
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Whenever a machine is invented that will economically decorticate the Ramie fiber, its cultivation will become an important industry in this country.
From The Hawaiian Islands Their Resources, Agricultural, Commercial and Financial by Hawaii. Dept. of Foreign Affairs
He decorticated the Third Reich, cheese fanciers, gossip columnists and the Hollywood star system with equal and total frenzy.
From Time Magazine Archive
They use much pottage made of coal-wort, which they call keal, sometimes broth of decorticated barley.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William
Andrew Knight observed that his bees, instead of laboriously collecting propolis, used a cement of wax and turpentine, with which he had covered decorticated trees.
From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Darwin, Charles
Spun silk is now made in England from "Ramie" the decorticated fibre of Nettles after washing away the glutinous juice from under their bark.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas
The quantities employed were 6-1/2 parts of decorticated castor beans for every 100 parts of oil or fat, and 50 to 60 parts of acetic acid.
From The Handbook of Soap Manufacture by Simmons, W. H.
At Pisgah Forest, N. C., Paperman Harry Straus set up a plant to make cigaret paper direct from domestic flax, separating the flax fibre from the flax straw by newly developed decorticating machines.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many copra-making plants in India and Ceylon are now supplied with decorticating, breaking, and evaporating machinery.
From The Cocoanut With reference to its products and cultivation in the Philippines by Lyon, William S. (Scrugham)
The axis of the decorticating cylinder does not coincide with that of the vessel, B', so that the free interval for the passage of the cane continues to diminish from the entrance to the exit.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various
It receives in addition a cog-wheel, L, which transmits its motion to the decorticating cylinder through, the intermedium of a large wooden-toothed gear wheel, L'.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various
The outlay for fencing against wandering flocks of goats and for decorticating machinery and other expenses would deter the ordinary cultivator from planting, and this could only be profitably undertaken if ample capital were forthcoming.
From Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products by Bevan, William
