lacerant

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adjective

lacerating

Scrabble 10

Meanings

adjectivelacerant (not comparable)
  1. not comparablelacerating

    Sixthly, one upon the left temple, with laceration of the integuments and entire fracture of the bone, till part of the matter of the brain came out; made by an instrument incident and lacerant.

    1785, Christopher Hervey, Letters from Portugal, Spain, Italy and Germany..., page 225
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    The method of protecting typewriting consisting in employing a typewriter embodying a platen, the usual types and an inked ribbon, inserting a material having a lacerant surface between the platen and the paper to be written upon, […]

    1918, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 1225

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