crêper

crêper (plural crêpers)

1. Alternative form of creper
   • 1917, Proceedings of the First Agricultural Conference, Malaya: Held at the Chamber of Commerce, Kuala Lumpur, April 25th to 28th 1917, page 103:

     Strip coagulation in tanks is more economical than mass coagulation as the strip will go easily through a macerator without being cut up, rollers can be set fairly close for the first roll, and once through the macerator brings the rubber to a stage where the crêper and smooth finisher can deal with it. The macerator and crêper should be hard chilled rollers with uneven speeds, the number of teeth in the cogs being 21 for the front roller and 18 for the back one.

   • 1926, Archief voor de rubbercultuur in Nederlandsch-Indië, page 222:

     Generally speaking the V-groove is seen on the macerators, the U-groove on the crêpers.

   • 1979, Paper Technology and Industry, page 91, column 2:

     On plant side, the mill had two MG machines and an off-machine crêper.

From crêpe +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /kʁɛ.pe/, /kʁe.pe/

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crêper

1. (transitive) to crinkle, to crimp

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• → Catalan: crepar

• “crêper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.