digester

English

Etymology

digest +‎ -er

Noun

digester (plural digesters)

One who, or that which, digests.
(dated) A medicine or food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power.
- Sir W. Temple
  Rice is […] a great restorer of health, and a great digester.
A strong closed vessel in which bones or other substances may be subjected, usually in water or other liquid, to a temperature above that of boiling, in order to soften them.

Translations

strong closed vessel

Finnish: keitin (fi), painekattila, -kattila (fi) (see e.g. sellukattila)

Anagrams

Estridge, estridge, gedrites, redigest

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