This defecator is a copper pan, eleven feet long and about three feet wide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882] Reference

As it is expressed from the press tank, the cider passes to a storage tank, and thence to the defecator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882] Reference

The primary object of the defecator is to remove all impurities and perfectly clarify the liquid passing through it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882] Reference

Hot water, instead of cider, is sometimes sent through the defecator, evaporator, etc., until all are thoroughly scalded and purified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882] Reference

There were some real ongoing issues about our natural and economic environment that transcended the story of one mean-spirited airwave-defecator.    From Wordnik.com.  [View from the Northern Border] Reference

A secondary purpose served by the defecator is that of reducing the cider by evaporation to a partial sirup of the specific gravity of about 20° Baume.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882] Reference

The site says that is is for "the discerning, on-the-go defecator who is brave enough to use a public bathroom, but still demands a hygienic and private bathroom experience.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

When of this consistency the liquid is drawn from the bottom and less agitated portion of the defecator by a siphon, and thence carried to the evaporator, which is located upon the same framework and just below the defecator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882] Reference

Yet statuettes of "El Caganer," or the great defecator in the Catalan language, can be found in nativity scenes, and increasingly on the mantelpieces of collectors, throughout Spain's northeastern Catalonia region, where for centuries symbols of defecation have played an important role in Christmas festivities.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Love the Old Holiday Traditions] Reference

Steam being let on at from twenty five to thirty pounds pressure, the stream of sirup is received from the defecator through a strainer, which removes any impurities possibly remaining into the upper evaporator tube; passing in a gentle flow through that, it is delivered into a funnel connected with the next tube below, and so, back and forth, through the whole system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882] Reference

The 'caganer' (literally 'defecator') is a feature of Catalan nativity scenes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Also, a few elements are named for common uses of a compound; thus, for arsenic Turkish can use (beside Persian-derived zirník) sičánotu, lit. ` shitter-herb, 'i.e., ` rat poison' (a common name for the mouse and rat is sičán ` defecator ').    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 3] Reference

He immediately offered to go over some experiments on beet root juice with me at his laboratory, where I accordingly spent the greater part of two days with him, and went over a variety of experiments; and from what I saw and assisted in doing, I feel strongly inclined to think that, notwithstanding the French commission at Martinique report otherwise, some modification of Mr. Melsens 'process may be most advantageously employed in making cane sugar if not as a defecator, at least to prevent fermentation, and, probably, also as a decolorising agent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

` defecator 'and so is closely akin to shitepoke and shitehawk (Shoot 6).    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 3] Reference

(literal translation: defecator).    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

"A defecator.    From Wordnik.com.  [An East Wind Coming]

"He may be a defecator.".    From Wordnik.com.  [An East Wind Coming]

This mill ordinarily employs about six men: One general superintendent, who buys and measures the apples, keeps time books, attends to all the accounts and the working details of the mill, and acts as cashier; one sawyer, who manufactures lumber for the local market and saws the slabs into short lengths suitable for the furnace; one cider maker, who grinds the apples and attends the presses; one jelly maker, who attends the defecator, evaporator, and mixing tub, besides acting as his own fireman and engineer; one who attends the apple seed troughs and acts as general helper, and one man-of-all-work to pack, ship and assist whenever needed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882] Reference