extruder

noun

ex·​trud·​er ik-ˈstrü-dər 

plural extruders

: someone or something that extrudes something

specifically : a machine that shapes material by forcing it through a specially designed opening

a pasta extruder

There are recipes too, and for those who don't have a sausage extruder at home (who doesn't?) some of the sausages don't require casings.

—Karon Liu

[Zak] Wilson brought a 3-D printer, and … he concedes that watching the extruder swing back and forth, depositing tiny bits of material with each pass, is "maybe not a terrible analogy for our stay here."

—Tom Kizzia

Examples of extruder in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Settle onto the end of a long wooden lever to press dough through the extruder and into a pot of boiling water. —Chantha Nguon, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024

The flake is melted in an extruder – almost like chocolate in a double boiler. —Erik Matuszewski, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024

While the extruder machine spits out roasts, workers spot-check uncooked roasts to make sure the ratio of masa to stuffing is correct. —Lee Powell, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023

Everything was easy to clean except for the penne extruder, which required some extra attention. —Michelle Love, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2023

Electric extruders operate by extruding the pasta dough from a dough chamber and then kneading and cutting the pasta on its own. —Michelle Love, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2023

Workers in another, equally hot room fed the shreds into an extruder, which pumped out little gray pellets known as nurdles. —Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023

Then, too, it was not made with an ordinary food extruder, like most meat substitutes on the market today. —Douglas Heingartner, IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2018

The speed and the shape of the extruder help determine the hardness of the ice. —Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2023

Word History

Etymology

extrude + -er entry 2

First Known Use

1857, in the meaning defined above