manducator

Something used for manducating.

Now if any Transatlantic Philistine can crack the shell of this German nut, and extract an eatable kernel, he must possess a manducator pretty considerably stronger than that with which Samson cracked the skulls of the ancient Philistines in the Holy Land—the jaw-bone of an ass.

They may in a sense, be almost considered superior to the original, or natural teeth, as merely mechanical manducators, wanting only the nervous connection conferring tactile sense, to make them life-like.

One who manducates.

Manducators, man´-du-ka-turz, s. pl. lud.

A minister who did not want the members of his congregation to chew tobacco while he was preaching admonished the manducators as follows: “Take your quid of tobacco out of your mouth on entering the house of God, and gently lay it on the outer edge of the sidewalk or on the fence. […] Geo. E. Macdonald.