manducator

Noun

manducator (plural manducators)

1. (rare) Something used for manducating.
   • Now if any Transatlantic Philistine can crack the shell of this German nut, and extract an eatable kernel, he must possess a manducator pretty considerably stronger than that with which Samson cracked the skulls of the ancient Philistines in the Holy Land—the jaw-bone of an ass.1841 March 27, James Johnson, quotee, “Pilgrimages to the Spas in Pursuit of Health and Recreation; with an Inquiry into the Comparative Merits of Different Mineral Waters, &c. &c. By James Johnson...
   • They may in a sense, be almost considered superior to the original, or natural teeth, as merely mechanical manducators, wanting only the nervous connection conferring tactile sense, to make them life-like.1862, [Martin] Ephraim Mosely, “Patented Invention of Caoutchouc Fixatures for Artificial Teeth, Sustained by Atmospheric Pressure”, in Teeth, Their Natural History: With the Physiology of the Human...
2. (rare) One who manducates.
   • Manducators, man´-du-ka-turz, s. pl. lud.[1856, J[ohann] G[ottfried] Flügel, A Complete Dictionary of the English and German and German and English Languages, Containing All the Words in General Use, 3rd edition, volumes I (English and...
   • A minister who did not want the members of his congregation to chew tobacco while he was preaching admonished the manducators as follows: “Take your quid of tobacco out of your mouth on entering the house of God, and gently lay it on the outer edge of the sidewalk or on the fence. […] Geo. E....1895 May 18, The Truth Seeker: A Journal of Freethought and Reform, New York, N.Y., page 312, column 2