Word Meanings - PRESSER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who, or that which, presses. Presser bar, or Presser wheel , a bar or wheel which closes the barbs of the needles to enable the loops of the yarn to pass over them. -- Presser foot, the part of a sewing machine which rests on the cloth
Additional info about word: PRESSER
One who, or that which, presses. Presser bar, or Presser wheel , a bar or wheel which closes the barbs of the needles to enable the loops of the yarn to pass over them. -- Presser foot, the part of a sewing machine which rests on the cloth and presses it down upon the table of the machine.
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- MACHINER
One who or operates a machine; a machinist. - NEEDLESS
1. Having no need. Weeping into the needless stream. Shak. 2. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses. 3. Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless. "Needless jealousy." Shak. -- Need"less*ly, - NEEDLESTONE
Natrolite; -- called also needle zeolite. - WHEELBIRD
The European goatsucker. - CLOTHESLINE
A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - WHEEL OF FORTUNE
A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules. - ENABLE
1. To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong. "Who hath enabled me." 1 Tim. i. 12. Receive the Holy Ghost, said Christ to his apostles, when he enabled them with priestly power. Jer. Taylor. 2. To make able ; to confer sufficient - WHEELWRIGHT
A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like. - WHEELED
Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a four- wheeled carriage. - CLOTHESHORSE
A frame to hang clothes on. - WHEELBARROW
A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - WHEELWORK
A combination of wheels, and their connection, in a machine or mechanism. - WHEELING
1. The act of conveying anything, or traveling, on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle. 2. The act or practice of using a cycle; cycling. 3. Condition of a road or roads, which admits of passing on wheels; as, it is good wheeling, or bad wheeling. - CLOTHIER
1. One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward. 2. One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes. - WHEELBAND
The tire of a wheel. - CLOTHING
See CARD (more info) 1. Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering. From others he shall stand in need of nothing, Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing. Milton. As for me, . . . my clothing - SEWE
To perform the duties of a sewer. See 3d Sewer. - CLOTHESPIN
A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line. - GRAMME MACHINE
A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight. - SAILCLOTH
Duck or canvas used in making sails. - CATHERINE WHEEL
See WINDOW (more info) Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in allusion to her - BRUISEWORT
A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey. - BURRING MACHINE
A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances. - BEDCLOTHES
Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak. - FOUR-WHEELER
A vehicle having four wheels. - PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - HEARSECLOTH
A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson. - BREECHCLOTH
A cloth worn around the breech. - PELTON WHEEL
A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, consisting of a row of double cup-shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity. - TENABLENESS
See TENABILITY - CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté. - DISENABLE
To disable; to disqualify. The sight of it might damp me and disenable me to speak. State Trials - INALIENABLE
Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; as, in inalienable birthright. - NECKCLOTH
A piece of any fabric worn around the neck. - HOUSEWIFE
A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for 3. A hussy. Shak. Sailor's housewife, a ditty-bag. (more info) 1. The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good - BROADCLOTH
A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width ; -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.