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Candroy :: Candroy (n.) A machine for spreading out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing.

Throstle :: Throstle (n.) A machine for spinning wool, cotton, etc., from the rove, consisting of a set of drawing rollers with bobbins and flyers, and differing from the mule in having the twisting apparatus stationary and the processes continuous; -- so called because it makes a singing noise..

Dredge :: Dredge (n.) Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea..

Attachment :: Attachment (n.) Something attached; some adjunct attached to an instrument, machine, or other object; as, a sewing machine attachment (i. e., a device attached to a sewing machine to enable it to do special work, as tucking, etc.)..

Water Power :: Water power () The power of water employed to move machinery, etc..

Feller :: Feller (n.) One who, or that which, fells, knocks or cuts down; a machine for felling trees..

Bolster :: Bolster (n.) the perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.

Plater :: Plater (n.) A machine for calendering paper.

Simplicity :: Simplicity (n.) The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts; as, the simplicity of a machine..

Ease :: Ease (n.) To release from pressure or restraint; to move gently; to lift slightly; to shift a little; as, to ease a bar or nut in machinery..

Crimper :: Crimper (n.) A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.

Hopper :: Hopper (n.) A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car..

Mechanist :: Mechanist (n.) A maker of machines; one skilled in mechanics.

Spreadingly :: Spreader (n.) A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.

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

Interference :: Interference (n.) The act or state of interfering; as, the stoppage of a machine by the interference of some of its parts; a meddlesome interference in the business of others..

Tension :: Tension (a.) A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of tightness..

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

Bellows :: Bellows (n. sing. & pl.) An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind..

Clock :: Clock (n.) A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person..

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