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Beam
noun · 78% connection
Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, cleansing, loosening, wool, revolving.
Bite
verb · 78% connection
To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, cleansing, loosening, wool, revolving.
Burring machine
unknown · 78% connection
A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, cleansing, loosening, wool, revolving.
Capstan
noun · 78% connection
A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, cleansing, loosening, wool, revolving.
Cheval-de-frise
noun · 78% connection
A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, sto…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, cleansing, loosening, wool, revolving.
Comb
noun · 78% connection
An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, cleansing, loosening, wool, revolving.
Comber
noun · 78% connection
One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, cleansing, loosening, wool, revolving.
Concave
adjective · 78% connection
Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surfac…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, cleansing, loosening, wool, revolving.
Cylinder
noun · 78% connection
A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, cleansing, loosening, wool, revolving.
Cylindrical
adjective · 78% connection
Having the form of a cylinder, or of a section of its convex surface; partaking of the properties of the cylinder.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, cleansing, loosening, wool, revolving.
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, cleansing, loosening, wool, revolving.
Drum
noun · 78% connection
An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, cleansing, loosening, wool, revolving.
Duster
noun · 78% connection
One who, or that which, dusts; a utensil that frees from dust.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, cleansing, loosening, wool, revolving.
Fleece
noun · 78% connection
The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, cleansing, loosening, wool, revolving.
Gig
noun · 78% connection
A fiddle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, cleansing, loosening, wool, revolving.
Hatchel
noun · 78% connection
An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large com…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, cleansing, loosening, wool, revolving.
Hematite
noun · 78% connection
An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because of the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent rhombohedral cryst…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, cleansing, loosening, wool, revolving.
Herse
noun · 78% connection
A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes. It is hung above gateways so that it may be q…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: machine, cleansing, loosening, wool, revolving.
