"The Crusher of Wheat"
I've tried fiddling with the translation here, but I'm not quite happy with the results I've come up with so far.
I'm looking for something that's the equivalent of "The Crusher of Wheat" (it's a long story as to why I'm asking this...).
So far, the closest I've come to is "La Machacadera del Trigo." I'm not having trouble with the wheat part, it's the crusher part that's being difficult. I'm getting translations that are close to "squeezer of wheat" (close, but no cigar) or "crusher machine of wheat," neither of which really works for what I have in mind.
It looks like the verb aplastar means "to crush." Is there something along the lines of "aplastero" or "aplastadero" for "one who crushes"?
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It's really just one sentence in a longer story I'm working on (which never takes itself 100% seriously); the sentence is: And we called him La Machacadera del Trigo, which means The Crusher of Wheat, because he crushed wheat and he crushed it well.
Sounds good to me, but the correct word is "el machacador del trigo".... porque trituraba el trigo y lo trituraba/machacaba muy bien (y lo hacía muy bien!!)
Heh. I guess I'm being way too obtuse. I'm thinking of a person who takes a stalk of wheat and crushes it with his hands. It's actually not so much the wheat that's important but rather the act of crushing, of being a person who crushes something.
What I've been looking for is something kind of along the lines of "He Who Crushes Wheat."
Meaning.... what? 
Are you talking about a person who kills people? are you talking about a person who likes gossiping so much he/she seems to be a wheat crusher?? We need an idea of what you mean to help you crazydiamond... and it seems I'm not the only one... I do want to help, I love idioms... it's very challenging to find a similar one in another language... but I need tools, I need to understand what you want to say...
"Trituradora de trigo" sounds perfct, but if you need an idiomatic expression here, maybe what you need in Spanish has nothing to do with wheat or machines... We need more context to find and idiomatic expression similar to the one in English... Hope you understand what I mean 
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It's really just one sentence in a longer story I'm working on (which never takes itself 100% seriously); the sentence is: And we called him La Machacadera del Trigo, which means The Crusher of Wheat, because he crushed wheat and he crushed it well.
So, would Trituradora be the best replacement for Machacadera here? (I was under the assumption that trituradora referred to some kind of crushing machine, not a person.)
How about, molinillo - grinder?
I was leaning toward Trituradora as well, but the phrase is really supposed to refer to a person rather than an object or thing. Would trituradora work for a person as opposed to an object?
What I've been looking for is something kind of along the lines of "He Who Crushes Wheat."
Moler doesn't work? (Grind- for coffee or wheat or whatever).
I guess you could say, "Trituradora del Trigo" or "Aplastando del Trigo". Just to get the ball rolling here.
