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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

Shell transverse, equivalve, not affixed, the tops decorticated.

From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson

There is a rustic bench, much roiled by the birds, and decorticated and split by the weather, near the little gate.

From John Bull's Other Island by Bernard Shaw

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 Charles Darwin

Mary sat in a wooden chair and decorticated spuds, with a thrill in her heart.

From The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry

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

The entrance plates, D, are provided with 6 spiral channels, whose pitch is equal to that of the channels of the decorticating cylinder, C, and in the same direction.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various

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

Ramie grows luxuriantly, but the lack of proper decorticating and cleaning machinery has prevented any advance in this cultivation.

From The Hawaiian Islands Their Resources, Agricultural, Commercial and Financial by Hawaii. Dept. of Foreign Affairs

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 William Bevan