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Ecraseur
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) An instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a steel chain, so that hemorrhage rarely follows.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Ecraseur'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/e/ecraseur.html. 1828.