ricer
Noun
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Noun
ricer (plural ricers)
- (US) A person, especially a Native American, who cultivates and harvests rice.
- 1967, The New Yorker, Volume 43, Part 6, page 41 ↗:
- He opened the cashbox and counted out the money, and Martin handed it on to one of the ricers.
- "Where are you guys ricing tomorrow?" he said.
- "Down in the Refuge," the ricer with the money said.
- 1988, Thomas Vennum, Wild Rice and the Ojibway People, page 229 ↗:
- In exchange for use of a buyer's boat, the ricers were to sell what they harvested exclusively to him.
- 1999 September 19, Winona LaDuke, Under the Wild Rice Moon, Minneapolis Star Tribune, reprinted in 2002, The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings, page 30 ↗:
- There are also lots of ricers. By two weeks into ricing season, Native Harvest bought from 30 or 40 ricers.
- 1967, The New Yorker, Volume 43, Part 6, page 41 ↗:
- (cooking) A utensil used to extrude soft foods (such as, and especially, cooked potato) through holes about the diameter of a grain of rice.
- Synonyms: potato ricer
- cot en
- 2007, Patricia Webster Stewart, Stuck in My Own Family Tree, page 25 ↗:
- He cooked a roast, made applesauce with the ricer and used every size pan he could find to cook vegetables.
- 2008, Leanne Kitchen, The Greengrocer, page 14 ↗:
- Ricers can also be used for mashing other root vegetables, as well as starchy ones like broad (fava) beans and peas.
- 2013, Tara Mataraza Desmond, Choosing Sides: From Holidays to Every Day, 130 Delicious Recipes to Make the Meal, unnumbered page ↗:
- Passing cooked chunks through a basic, inexpensive handheld ricer maximizes their texture, which is less starchy than their russet brethren, and makes a soft, dry pile that simply stirs into creamy, smooth mounds.
- (US, slang, derogatory) An imported automobile from an Oriental country, deemed inferior because it is low-powered and/or cheap.
- Synonyms: rice burner
- (US, slang, derogatory) A person who drives such an automobile.
- (US, slang, derogatory) A person who modifies such an automobile using after-market parts to give it the appearance of being more powerful or sporty.
- German: Kartoffelpresse
- Italian: schiacciapatate
- Russian: пресс-пюре́
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