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Horse Power :: Horse power () A machine worked by a horse, for driving other machinery; a horse motor..

Share :: Share (n.) The part which opens the ground for the reception of the seed, in a machine for sowing seed..

Haymaker :: Haymaker (n.) A machine for curing hay in rainy weather.

Power :: Power (n.) A machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a motor to drive other machinery; as, a dog power..

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..

Mechanic :: Mechanic (a.) A mechanician; an artisan; an artificer; one who practices any mechanic art; one skilled or employed in shaping and uniting materials, as wood, metal, etc., into any kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools, or instruments..

Kin :: Kin (n.) A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings..

Scutcher :: Scutcher (n.) An implement or machine for scutching hemp, flax, or cotton; etc.; a scutch; a scutching machine..

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

Schwanpan :: Schwanpan (n.) Chinese abacus.

Balance Wheel :: Balance wheel () A wheel which imparts regularity to the movements of any engine or machine; a fly wheel.

Tenter :: Tenter (n.) One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman..

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc..

Chined :: Chined (a.) Broken in the back.

Dismount :: Dismount (v. t.) To take down, or apart, as a machine..

Sampan :: Sampan (n.) A Chinese boat from twelve to fifteen feet long, covered with a house, and sometimes used as a permanent habitation on the inland waters..

Adder :: Adder (n.) One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers..

Swifter :: Swift (n.) The main card cylinder of a flax-carding machine.

Backlash :: Backlash (n.) The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion..

Dynamometer :: Dynamometer (n.) An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery..

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