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shredder [shred-er] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a person or thing that shreds.
- a machine for destroying secret or private documents by shredding them.
- any of various devices used to shred crops, vegetables, wood, metal, etc.
Origin of shredder First recorded in 1565–75; shred + -er1 Examples from the Web for shredder Contemporary Examples of shredder
But the theme was universal; King likes to take your typical family unit and put it through a shredder.
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Historical Examples of shredder
These stalks may always be saved by the use of the husker and shredder.
Charles William Burkett
They were to be put forthwith through the company’s shredder.
Sir Owen Woodhouse, R. B. Cooke, Ivor L. M. Richardson, Duncan Wallace McMullin, and Sir Edward Somers
Corn after being matured and cut can be put in shocks and left thus until dry enough to run through the husker and shredder.
Charles William Burkett
The shredder and husker turns the hitherto useless cornstalk into food, and at the same time husks, or shucks, the corn.
Charles William Burkett
This means a Strong-breasted one, the Pourer or Shredder forth of spiritual and temporal blessings.
Josiah Blake Tidwell
Word Origin and History for shredder n.
1570s, agent noun from shred (v.). In the paper disposal sense from 1950.