quartz crusher

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English

Noun

quartz crusher (plural quartz crushers)

  1. (now chiefly historical) A machine designed to crush quartz in order to extract gold. [from 19th c.]
    • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber 2003, p. 86:
      Mrs Ester did not worry about gold. The quartz crushers were already more important.
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