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1. bagasse, n. View full entry 1833
...The refuse products in sugar-making, whether from the cane or from beet. Also attrib....
2. bastard, n. and adj. View full entry
...An impure coarse brown sugar, made from the refuse syrup of previous boilings....
3. bastard, n. and adj. View full entry 1859
...A large mould into which sugar is drained. (So French bâtard.)...
4. bloom, n.1 View full entry 1825
...Used attributively to denote a certain appearance or state assumed by sugar in the process of clarifying and refining....
5. blow-up, n. View full entry 1833
...Sugar Manuf. The place where the raw sugar is dissolved; also attrib., as blow-up cistern, blow-up pan, a vessel used in dissolving raw sugar by...
6. boatswain, n. View full entry 1774
...Caribbean. A supervisor or overseer; spec. a slave worker who supervises the operation of a sugar mill on a plantation. Now hist....
7. carbonatation, n. View full entry 1869
...In industrial processes: the reaction of lime and carbon dioxide to form calcium carbonate; spec. (in beet sugar manufacture) the addition of calcium hydroxide followed by carbon dioxide to the...
8. clarifier, n. View full entry 1822
...techn. A vessel in which liquor or juice is clarified; spec. a large metallic pan or cauldron used in the clarification of sugar....
9. clay, n. View full entry 1765
...The application of clay in sugar-refining. Cf. clay3....
10. clay, v. View full entry 1703
...trans. To treat (sugar) with clay in refining....
11. clayed, adj. View full entry 1760
...Treated with clay; spec. of sugar, refined with clay; of land, dressed with clay....
12. claying, n. View full entry ?1523
...The action of clay...
13. concreter | concretor, n. View full entry
...in Sugar Manuf., an apparatus for concentrating syrup by heat....
14. condenser, n. View full entry 1874
...Sugar Manuf. An apparatus for the partial concentration of the clarified juice....
15. cooler, n. View full entry a1550
...A container in which anything is cooled or set to cool, esp. in a manufacturing process; spec.a container used for cooling the wort in brewing; a container into...
16. ˈcopper-wall, n. View full entry
...An old-fashioned arrangement in sugar-making, consisting of a long row of open pans or boilers bricked together within two parallel walls, and heated by a fire at one end. ...
17. defecator, n. View full entry 1864
...One who or that which defecates or purifies; spec. in Sugar Manuf.: see quot. 1874....
18. evaporating cone in eˈvaporating, n. View full entry 1874
...an apparatus of Belgian invention, used in the sugar manufacture....
19. false, adj., adv., and n. View full entry 1900
...a fresh crop of small sugar crystals formed during the process of sugar manufacture when syrup is introduced into the crystallizing pans in order to increase the size of the crystals already...
20. feather, n. View full entry 1827
...Confectionery. One of the degrees in boiling sugar. Also the great, little feather: see quots. Cf. French à la (grande, petite) plume...
