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Centrifugal :: Centrifugal (n.) A centrifugal machine.

Rumble :: Rumble (v. t.) To cause to pass through a rumble, or shaking machine. See Rumble, n., 4..

Spinner :: Spinner (n.) One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine..

Charge :: Charge (v. t.) That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel, etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or which is actually in it at one time.

Couloir :: Couloir (n.) A dredging machine for excavating canals, etc..

Take-up :: Take-up (n.) That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch..

Automaton :: Automaton (v. i.) A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; -- applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc..

Machinery :: Machinery (n.) The means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose.

Platen :: Platen (n.) The movable table of a machine tool, as a planer, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool; -- also called table..

Charge :: Charge (v. t.) To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge an electrical machine, etc..

Governor :: Governor (n.) A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances and motive force are variable..

Clockwork :: Clockwork (n.) The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement..

Knit :: Knit (v. t.) To form, as a textile fabric, by the interlacing of yarn or thread in a series of connected loops, by means of needles, either by hand or by machinery; as, to knit stockings..

Chine :: Chine (n.) A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep..

Mechanographic :: Mechanographic (a.) Written, copied, or recorded by machinery; produced by mechanography; as, a mechanographic record of changes of temperature; mechanographic prints..

Treadle :: Treadle (n.) The part of a foot lathe, or other machine, which is pressed or moved by the foot..

Devil :: Devil (n.) A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc..

Lapping :: Lapping (n.) A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.

Chapelet :: Chapelet (n.) A kind of chain pump, or dredging machine..

Nopalry :: Nopalry (n.) A plantation of the nopal for raising the cochineal insect.

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