grinder

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
noun grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars
noun machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing

From Middle English grinder, grindere, from Old English grindere (“one or that which grinds; grinder”), equivalent to grind + -er.

Robin Hood and the Grinder. — Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
He said it was an organ grinder’s monkey’s hat. — Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Forty teeth, namely twenty-four grinders, four eye-teeth, and twelve incisive. — Hard Times, Charles Dickens

bomber, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep

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