creper

• crêper

From crepe +‎ -er.

creper (plural crepers)

1. A machine for making rubber into crepes (rubber sheets).
   • 1973, Quarterly Journal - Rubber Research Institute of Sri Lanka, page 172:

     For continuous slabs of coagula derived from the conventional tanks, these are best subjected to one pass through a creper and to a granulator or a creper-hammermill for size reduction.

   • 1985, Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering, page 697:

     It is common practice to mount a creper directly above the hammermill (creper hammermill) to reduce the power requirements.

   • 2010, Hari P. Singh, Bharat P. Singh, “Natural Rubber”, in Industrial Crops and Uses, CABI, →ISBN, page 372:

     The coagulum is pressed between rollers to form crepes, mashed into small pieces by a hammer mill and finally into crumbs by an extruder. An alternative method of making crumb is to add incompatible oil to coagulated latex and then feed it through a creper for transformation into crumbs.

Of uncertain origin;[1] proposed derivations include:

• From a Proto-Indo-European root common to Albanian ngrys (“to have dinner, to darken”, verb).
• From a root common to Ancient Greek κνέφας (knéphas, “darkness”).
• From a root common to Ancient Greek κρύπτω (krúptō, “to hide”) or Lithuanian krópti (“to steal”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkre.per/, [ˈkrɛpɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkre.per/, [ˈkrɛːper]

creper (feminine crepera, neuter creperum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. uncertain, doubtful, obscure

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

• creperum
• crepusculum

• “creper”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• creper in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• crepere, crepar

From crepen +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkreːpər(ə)/

creper (plural crepers) (rare)

1. A creeper or slitherer.
2. A device for securing ships; a small anchor.

• English: creeper
• Scots: creeper

• “crẹ̄per, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-17.