from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A machine or an implement used for planting seeds.
noun A machine or implement used to remove the seeds from fruit.
noun One that seeds clouds.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun One who or that which sows or plants seeds; a seedplanting tool or machine; a seeding-machine or sower; a seed-drill.
noun An apparatus for removing seeds from fruit: as, a raisin-seeder.
noun A breeding or spawning fish; a seed-fish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun One who, or that which, sows or plants seed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun agriculture A device used to plantseeds; a seed drill
noun An implement used to remove the seeds from fruit etc.
noun A person who seeds clouds in order to make it rain
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun a kitchen utensil that removes seeds from fruit
noun a mechanical device that sows grass seed or grain evenly over the ground
noun a person who seeds clouds
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One is a glossary of cookery terms (have you ever heard of “flummery”?), and the other is an illustrative listing of antique cooking implements (do you know what a “raisin seeder” looks like?)
One is a glossary of cookery terms (have you ever heard of “flummery”?), and the other is an illustrative listing of antique cooking implements (do you know what a “raisin seeder” looks like?)
The Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok has developed a new tool called the jab-seeder, which is a low-cost, simple, easy-to-operate alternative for manual seeding of farms.
In the BitTorrent system, a seeder is a BitTorrent use who has downloaded all of one file and is now hosting it rather than simultaneously downloading chunks.
Blackstone Group, which long has backed hedge funds through its fund-of-funds business, is now raising a second, bigger "seeder" fund so it can dole out more money to proprietary traders and other investment pros spinning out of Wall Street to start hedge funds, say people close to the matter.
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