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Jack :: Jack (n.) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine.

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine..

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..

Rigger :: Rigger (n.) A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.

Velocimeter :: Velocimeter (n.) An apparatus for measuring speed, as of machinery or vessels, but especially of projectiles..

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

Director :: Director (n.) A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action.

Machinery :: Machinery (n.) The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected..

Thresher :: Thresher (n.) One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine..

Tool :: Tool (n.) A machine for cutting or shaping materials; -- also called machine tool.

Polygraph :: Polygraph (n.) An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing; a manifold writer; a copying machine.

Follower :: Follower (n.) The part of a machine that receives motion from another part. See Driver.

Speeder :: Speeder (n.) A machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings.

Rocker :: Rocker (n.) Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water..

Bite :: Bite (v.) The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another..

Cataract :: Cataract (n.) A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot.

Feed :: Feed (v. t.) To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press..

Lift :: Lift (n.) An exercising machine.

Squeezing :: Squeezer (n.) A machine of several forms for the same purpose; -- used in the singular.

Winch :: Winch (n.) A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, etc..

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