pulping, vbl. n.
(ˈpʌlpɪŋ)
[f. pulp v. + -ing1.]
The action of pulp v.; reduction to pulp. Also attrib., as pulping-house, pulping-machine, pulping-mill, pulping-sieve.
| 1662 R. Mathew Unl. Alch. §116. 192 Run it through a pulping Sive, and wash with clean water the still or the Lymbeck. 1793 B. Edwards West Ind. II. v. iv. 295 A pulping mill, consisting of a horizontal fluted roller, about eighteen inches long, and eight inches in diameter. 1825 Gentl. Mag. XCV. i. 215 After the coffee is gathered, it is taken to the pulping-mill. 1865 Times 15 Apr., Houses for thrashing, grinding, pulping, cooking. 1871 Tyndall Fragm. Sc. (1879) I. xx. 485 Water agitated by the pulping-engine of a paper manufactory. 1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 327/1 A premium was offered for machines to perform this kind of work [sc. pulping of turnips and mangolds for cattle], under the somewhat inappropriate designation of ‘pulping-machines’. 1883 Cassell's Fam. Mag. Aug. 527/2 The pulping-house and other necessary buildings have to be erected. 1909 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 518/1 From this pulping machine it passes to the centrifugal pump. |