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Operate :: Operate (v. t.) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine..

Gramme Machine :: Gramme machine () A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme..

Creel :: Creel (n.) A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule..

Mill :: Mill (n.) A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill; a cane mill..

Pendulum :: Pendulum (n.) A body so suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum. It is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery.

Crab :: Crab (a.) A claw for anchoring a portable machine.

Fourdrinier :: Fourdrinier (n.) A machine used in making paper; -- so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery.

Spin :: Spin (v. t.) To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material..

Pitchiness :: Pitchiness (n.) Blackness, as of pitch; darkness..

Table :: Table (n.) The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is fastened.

Dredger :: Dredger (n.) A dredging machine.

Cerotene :: Cerotene (n.) A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin..

Shaper :: Shaper (n.) That which shapes; a machine for giving a particular form or outline to an object.

Stonebuck :: Stonebrearer (n.) A machine for crushing or hammering stone.

Machine :: Machine (n.) A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends..

Strut :: Strut (n.) Any part of a machine or structure, of which the principal function is to hold things apart; a brace subjected to compressive stress; -- the opposite of stay, and tie..

Vanner :: Vanner (n.) A machine for concentrating ore. See Frue vanner.

Countershaft :: Countershaft (n.) An intermediate shaft; esp., one which receives motion from a line shaft in a factory and transmits it to a machine..

Self-acting :: Self-acting (a.) Acting of or by one's self or by itself; -- said especially of a machine or mechanism which is made to perform of or for itself what is usually done by human agency; automatic; as, a self-acting feed apparatus; a self-acting mule; a self-acting press..

Tenter :: Tenter (n.) A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square..

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