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digester

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digester [də′jes·tər]
(chemical engineering)
A vessel used to produce cellulose pulp from wood chips by cooking under pressure.
(civil engineering)
A sludge-digestion tank containing a system of hot water or steam pipes for heating the sludge.
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So soon as I hear that such or such a man gives himself out for a philosopher, I conclude that, like the dyspeptic old woman, he must have broken his digester.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
At the place where we slept water necessarily boiled, from the diminished pressure of the atmosphere, at a lower temperature than it does in a less lofty country; the case being the converse of that of a Papin's digester.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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