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Attachment
noun · 78% connection
Something attached; some adjunct attached to an instrument, machine, or other object; as, a sewing machine attachment (i. e., a device…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, strips, metal, drawn, drawplate.
Beakiron
noun · 78% connection
A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, strips, metal, drawn, drawplate.
Bench
noun · 78% connection
The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion of the full bench. See King's Bench.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, strips, metal, drawn, drawplate.
Bobbin
noun · 78% connection
A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, strips, metal, drawn, drawplate.
Cable
noun · 78% connection
A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension brid…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, strips, metal, drawn, drawplate.
Cloth
noun · 78% connection
A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adap…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, strips, metal, drawn, drawplate.
Cyclostyle
noun · 78% connection
A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, strips, metal, drawn, drawplate.
Doffer
noun · 78% connection
A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton from the cards.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, strips, metal, drawn, drawplate.
Drawknife
noun · 78% connection
A joiner's tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing it toward one; a shave; -- called als…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, strips, metal, drawn, drawplate.
Drill press
unknown · 78% connection
A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, strips, metal, drawn, drawplate.
Drosky
noun · 78% connection
A low, four-wheeled, open carriage, used in Russia, consisting of a kind of long, narrow bench, on which the passengers ride as on a s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, strips, metal, drawn, drawplate.
Ductile
adjective · 78% connection
Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, strips, metal, drawn, drawplate.
Electro-magnet
noun · 78% connection
A mass, usually of soft iron, but sometimes of some other magnetic metal, as nickel or cobalt, rendered temporarily magnetic by being…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, strips, metal, drawn, drawplate.
Exchange
noun · 78% connection
The process of setting accounts or debts between parties residing at a distance from each other, without the intervention of money, by…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, strips, metal, drawn, drawplate.
Filigree
noun · 78% connection
Ornamental work, formerly with grains or breads, but now composed of fine wire and used chiefly in decorating gold and silver to which…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, strips, metal, drawn, drawplate.
Finger
noun · 78% connection
Anything that does work of a finger; as, the pointer of a clock, watch, or other registering machine; especially (Mech.) a small proje…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, strips, metal, drawn, drawplate.
Flatter
noun · 78% connection
A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, strips, metal, drawn, drawplate.
Flexibility
noun · 78% connection
The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebon…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, strips, metal, drawn, drawplate.
