Crossword-Solution: LACTOMETER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lactometer | n. | An instrument for estimating the purity or richness of milk, as a measuring glass, a specific gravity bulb, or other apparatus. |
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| an instrument for testing the relative density of milk | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
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greedy person
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Sentences with LACTOMETER (5)
Tollet, of Betley Hall, selected cows, and especially bulls, descended from good milkers, for the sole purpose of improving his cattle for the production of cheese; he steadily tested the milk with the lactometer, and in eight years he increased, as I was informed by him, the product in proportion of four to three.
Would I give those rogues the chance of watering the _saheb’s_ milk?” The master thought for a moment, and asked again, “Are you sure there was no water in the pail before the milking began?—these people are very cunning.” “They are as cunning as _sheitan_, your lordship, but I made the man turn the pail upside down and shake it.” Again the master turned the matter over in his just mind, and it occurred to him that the lactometer was of English manufacture and might be puzzled by the milk of the buffalo.
The specific gravity of milk is determined by means of the lactometer, an instrument which sinks to a definite point in pure milk.
When, therefore, it is found that a cow pastured on inferior land, or badly fed in the byre, yields a large supply of milk of a high specific quantity (which, however, is rarely the case), it must not be concluded that the result is satisfactory; for if such milk be tested by the lactometer it will certainly be found wanting in butter.
This may be effected by means of an instrument termed a _lactometer_, which is simply a glass tube about five inches long, and graduated into a hundred parts.