entoleter
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A high-speed centrifugal device used to destroy insects and eggs in foodstuffs, especially in flour milling.
Example Sentences
- "The use of any entoleter for clean wheat ahead of first break is herein treated as a pre-break operation even though many combinations of rotor and liner and speed are available which break very little wheat."
- "[…] flour is often passed through an entoleter before being bagged off, or going to bulk bins. The entoleter […] is a machine consisting of a rotor rapidly rotating within a fixed housing."
- "Physical control methods include electric fly control units […], traps and even entoleters. These can be used with success in some situations. Entoleters are spinning mechanisms usually used within the milling industry to destroy eggs, larvae and adult stages of insects."
Etymology
From a brand name.