emasculator

English

Etymology

Latin

Two emasculators (veterinary instruments).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

emasculator (plural emasculators)

1. One who, or that which, emasculates.
   • 2006, Lee Ann Banaszak, The U.S. Women's Movement in Global Perspective, page 120:

     […] criticized Black men's perceptions of Black women as emasculators and oppressors […]

   • 2015, Paul Beatty, The Sellout, Oneworld Publications (2016), page 161:

     I handed her the knife and the emasculator, which, like the garden shears they resembled, and any other good tool, does exactly what its name says it's going to do.

   1. (veterinary) A type of clamp used to crush the spermatic cord when castrating livestock.