The most efficient scourer is that which frees the wheat from the greatest amount of impurity with a minimum of abrasion.
A vertical scourer consists of a number of steel or iron beaters attached to a vertical spindle which revolves inside a metallic woven or perforated casing, the whole being fitted with an effectual exhaust.
The first occupation is compared with the labour of the gold-refiner; the other, with that of the scourer of clothes.
We are told by Apuleius that the wife of a scourer concealed her gallant under a vessel of basket-work, over which cloth used to be laid to whiten by the effects of sulphur kindled under it.
The scourer used in the Eureka is constructed of the best imported cast sheet steel, manufactured and rolled expressly for this purpose.
You have heard that the purpose of the wool-scourer is to remove the dirt, grease, and so-called yolk, filling the pores and varnishing the fibres.
Every washer or scourer of wool, when he uses soaps, should first ascertain if they are free from excess of alkali, i.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scourer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
