Definition of "triturating" []

• Present participle of triturate. (verb)

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• "For were they not to do so, but to retain it for a time while triturating the food, the water would run into their digestive cavities."
• "The Grusonwek Ball Mills, made by Krupp of Germany, also that made by the Austral Otis Company, Melbourne, are fast and excellent crushing triturating appliances for either wet or dry working, but are specially suited only for ores when the gold is fine and evenly distributed in the stone."
• "Of means for crushing or triturating quartz there is no lack, and every year gives us fresh inventions for the purpose, each one better than that which preceded it, according to its inventor."