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Patrician :: Patrician (n.) One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore.

Capping Plane :: Capping plane () A plane used for working the upper surface of staircase rails.

Operameter :: Operameter (n.) An instrument or machine for measuring work done, especially for ascertaining the number of rotations made by a machine or wheel in manufacturing cloth; a counter..

"""boomer " :: Boomer (n.) One who works up a boom..

Parquetry :: Parquetry (n.) A species of joinery or cabinet-work consisting of an inlay of geometric or other patterns, generally of different colors, -- used especially for floors..

Work :: Work (v. t.) To cause to ferment, as liquor..

Swallow :: Swallet (n.) Water breaking in upon the miners at their work; -- so called among tin miners.

Stitchel :: Stitch (v. i.) To practice stitching, or needlework..

Slating :: Slating (n.) The act of covering with slate, slates, or a substance resembling slate; the work of a slater..

Job :: "Job (n.) A piece of chance or occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars..

Driver :: Driver (n.) An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.

Retort :: Retort (v. t.) A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works..

Relay :: Relay (n.) A number of men who relieve others in carrying on some work.

Septuagint :: Septuagint (n.) A Greek version of the Old Testament; -- so called because it was believed to be the work of seventy (or rather of seventy-two) translators.

Collation :: Collation (v. t.) A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.

Secondary :: Secondary (a.) Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands..

Profiling :: Profiling (n.) In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points..

Postscript :: Postscript (n.) A paragraph added to a letter after it is concluded and signed by the writer; an addition made to a book or composition after the main body of the work has been finished, containing something omitted, or something new occurring to the writer..

Atelier :: Atelier (n.) A workshop; a studio.

Jumper :: Jumper (n.) A sort of blouse worn by workmen over their ordinary dress to protect it.

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