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Transplanter :: Transplanter (n.) One who transplants; also, a machine for transplanting trees..

Cheek :: Cheek (n.) Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc..

Strippet :: Stripper (n.) One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards..

Machiner :: Machiner (n.) One who or operates a machine; a machinist.

Slubber :: Slubber (n.) A slubbing machine.

Feed :: Feed (v. t.) To produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to the work)..

Derange :: Derange (v. t.) To disturb in action or function, as a part or organ, or the whole of a machine or organism..

Waste :: Waste (v.) That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc..

Race :: Race (n.) A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc..

Shadoof :: Shadoof (n.) A machine, resembling a well sweep, used in Egypt for raising water from the Nile for irrigation..

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body through a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc. The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of jack..

Erect :: Erect (v. t.) To raise, as a building; to build; to construct; as, to erect a house or a fort; to set up; to put together the component parts of, as of a machine..

Installation :: Installation (n.) The whole of a system of machines, apparatus, and accessories, when set up and arranged for practical working, as in electric lighting, transmission of power, etc..

Creaser :: Creaser (n.) A tool, or a sewing-machine attachment, for making lines or creases on leather or cloth, as guides to sew by..

Joiner :: "Joiner (n.) A wood-working machine, for sawing, plaining, mortising, tenoning, grooving, etc..

Element :: Element (n.) One of the ultimate parts which are variously combined in anything; as, letters are the elements of written language; hence, also, a simple portion of that which is complex, as a shaft, lever, wheel, or any simple part in a machine; one of the essential ingredients of any mixture; a constituent part; as, quartz, feldspar, and mica are the elements of granite..

Work :: Work (v. t.) To set in motion or action; to direct the action of; to keep at work; to govern; to manage; as, to work a machine..

Mill :: Mill (n.) A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc..

Malaxator :: Malaxator (n.) One who, or that which, malaxates; esp., a machine for grinding, kneading, or stirring into a pasty or doughy mass..

Trones :: Trones (n.) A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar. It is now mostly disused..

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