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quartz crusher

quartz crusher noun: a machine designed to crush quartz in order to extract gold.

Noun

quartz crusher (plural quartz crushers)

  1. (historical) A machine designed to crush quartz in order to extract gold.
    • Mrs Ester did not worry about gold. The quartz crushers were already more important.1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber, published 2003, page 86

Forms of quartz crusher

pluralquartz crushers

Questions about quartz crusher

What does quartz crusher mean?
Quartz crusher means a machine designed to crush quartz in order to extract gold.
What part of speech is quartz crusher?
Quartz crusher is a noun.
What is the plural of quartz crusher?
The plural of quartz crusher is quartz crushers.

Words near quartz crusher in the dictionary

  1. quartz arenite
  2. quartz arenites
  3. quartz arenitic
  4. quartz clock
  5. quartz clocks
  6. quartz crusher
  7. quartz crushers
  8. quartz crystal
  9. quartz crystals
  10. quartz glass
  11. quartz glasses

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