(n.) One who, or that which, mashes; also (Brewing), a machine for making mash.
(n.) A charmer of women.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the best results, pass the potatoes through a potato ricer or mouli – otherwise, use a standard potato masher.
(2) Add the reserved liquid, lemon juice, cumin, the rest of the oil, three-quarters of a teaspoon of salt and a good grind of pepper, and on a medium-high heat warm through for six to seven minutes, crushing the beans slightly with a masher, until the mixture has the consistency of thick porridge.
(3) Depending on how daintily diced your vegetables are, you can either leave them in the gravy, or mash them up a bit with a potato masher and then sieve the gravy into a saucepan for the rest of the cooking.
(4) Photograph: Jordan Hoffman for the Guardian Nearby was a station with a similar concept, a Star Wars-specific version of Hero Mashers , in which you can take component parts and build your own action figure.
(5) Pass the steaming flesh through a ricer if you have one, or use a masher to obtain a smooth paste.
(6) His first directing job, Mission: Impossible III , had not been finished, he had a string of script commissions behind him of variable quality – including Michael Bay's infamous asteroid-masher Armageddon .
(7) Mash together with a masher or fork until you have a smooth thick puree, with a mashed potato consistency.
(8) On the one hand, I was impressed with this opportunity to play in such a free jazz style, but part of me wondered if Hero Mashers wasn’t born of a toy exec spying a bin of discarded doll parts wondering if he couldn’t make a buck out of ’em somehow.
(9) They were quickly alerted to the fact that the Japanese generally do not eat cheese or mashed potatoes during a presentation, leaving the potato masher and grater largely redundant - although the brand has proved particularly successful there and in the US out of the 105 countries they now sell in, mostly through third-party distributors.
(10) Now, whether using fresh or frozen, run a masher over the peas a few times to break them up a bit.
Smasher
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces.
(n.) Anything very large or extraordinary.
(n.) One who passes counterfeit coin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite worrying he would become a "professional dream smasher", he soon learned not to fret about the rejections he was doling out.
(2) The Who's pioneering instrument-smasher could find he's met his match with one of the bespoke nylon-bodied guitars made by Olaf Diegel, professor of mechatronics at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand.
(3) In presentations given to a packed auditorium at the laboratory on Wednesday morning, and webcast around the world, the leaders of two research teams, who worked independently of each other, said they had spotted a new particle amid the microscopic flashes of primordial fire created inside the world's most powerful atom smasher.
(4) Comedy plays are not eligible for the award, but what about a show such as Humphrey Ker's excellent Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher , a character monologue so neatly scripted and performed, with appropriate lighting and sound cues, that it could easily be described as a one-man play?
(5) (1972), Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers (1973), and a book about SF art called Great Balls of Fire (1977).
(6) The world's most powerful atom smasher hunts for signs of new physics by slamming subatomic particles together at nearly the speed of light in an 18-mile round tunnel beneath the French-Swiss border.