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
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 W. H. Simmons
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
The decorticated nuts were wiped dry and rubbed to a smooth paste in a marble mortar.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889 by Various
Auricularini.—The genera Hymenochœte, Stereum, and Corticium, with some species of Thelephora, run over corticated or decorticated wood; other species of Thelephora grow on the ground.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
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
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
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 William S. (Scrugham) Lyon
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 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
