shredder
nounOne that shreds.
nounA device used for shredding documents, often as a security measure to prevent unapproved persons from reading them.
nounOne who rides a board in a board sport, such as snowboarding, especially in a fast manner featuring many quick turns.
nounOne who plays fast solos on the electric guitar.
nounA machine for cutting into shreds or short slivers the stalks, leaves, and husks of ripe corn-plants in making stover or shredded fodder for cattle. It is a large and complicated power-machine resembling in general appearance a threshing-machine, and is often called a husker and shredder. The stalks of corn, with the ears, are fed to the machine, which removes and husks the ears, cuts the stalks into short pieces, shreds the stalks, leaves, and husks, cleans them from dust, and delivers the shredded product to a stacker or to a baling-press.
nounA machine for shredding whole wheat into long filaments or shreds. It consists essentially of pairs of steel rolls, one having a finely fluted face, placed above a traveling conveyer. Prepared whole wheat is fed between each pair of rolls and is torn into long threads that fall upon the conveyer and are conveyed to cutting-knives which divide them into cakes ready for baking.
nounA machine that tears up objects into smaller pieces, especially a paper shredder or garbage shredder.
nounA program that overwrites deleted
a device that shreds documents (usually in order to prevent the wrong people from reading them)