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Feller :: Feller (n.) An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.

Register :: Register (n.) A machine for registering automatically the number of persons passing through a gateway, fares taken, etc.; a telltale..

Pitman :: Pitman (n.) The connecting rod in a sawmill; also, sometimes, a connecting rod in other machinery..

Gin :: Gin (n.) A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.

Fleece :: Fleece (n.) The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.

Watch :: Watch (v. i.) A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring..

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

Drop :: Drop (n.) A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck..

Improvement :: Improvement (n.) A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition..

Mow :: Mow (v. t.) To cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine..

Weight :: Weight (v. t.) The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it..

Parcel :: Parcel (v. t.) To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc..

Machinist :: Machinist (n.) One skilled in the use of machine tools.

Mower :: Mower (n.) One who, or that which, mows; a mowing machine; as, a lawn mower..

Union :: Union (n.) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection..

Doctor :: Doctor (n.) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine..

Willow :: Willow (n.) A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil..

Getterup :: Getterup (n.) One who contrives, makes, or arranges for, anything, as a book, a machine, etc..

Matcher :: Matcher (n.) One who, or that which, matches; a matching machine. See under 3d Match..

Threader :: Threader (n.) A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut.

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