Word Meanings - SQUEEZER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who, or that which, squeezes; as, a lemon squeezer. A machine like a large pair of pliers, for shingling, or squeezing, the balls of metal when puddled; -- used only in the plural. A machine of several forms for the same purpose; -- used

Additional info about word: SQUEEZER

1. One who, or that which, squeezes; as, a lemon squeezer. A machine like a large pair of pliers, for shingling, or squeezing, the balls of metal when puddled; -- used only in the plural. A machine of several forms for the same purpose; -- used in the singular.

Related words: (words related to SQUEEZER)

• METALOGICAL
  Beyond the scope or province of logic.
• SHINGLER
  1. One who shingles. 2. A machine for shingling puddled iron.
• LEMON
  An oval or roundish fruit resembling the orange, and containing a pulp usually intensely acid. It is produced by a tropical tree of the genus Citrus,the common fruit known in commerce being that of the species C. Limonum or C. Medica . There are
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• METALLIC
  Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic
• METALLIFORM
  Having the form or structure of a metal.
• PURPOSE
  1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer.
• METALLIFACTURE
  The production and working or manufacture of metals. R. Park.
• SQUEEZE
  1. To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orange with the fingers; to squeeze the hand in friendship. 2. Fig.: To oppress with hardships,
• METALLOGRAPH
  A print made by metallography.
• PUDDLER
  One who converts cast iron into wrought iron by the process of puddling.
• 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.
• METALLINE
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a metal; metallic; as, metalline properties. Impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate; as, metalline water.
• PLURAL
  Relating to, or containing, more than one; designating two or more; as, a plural word. Plural faith, which is too much by one. Shak. Plural number , the number which designates more than one. See Number, n., 8.
• METALLOPHONE
  An instrument like a pianoforte, but having metal bars instead of strings. An instrument like the xylophone, but having metallic instead of wooden bars.
• METALLICLY
  In a metallic manner; by metallic means.
• PLURALIST
  A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice. Of the parochial clergy, a large proportion were pluralists. Macaulay.
• METALLICAL
  See METALLIC
• METALEPTIC
  Of, pertaining to, concerned in, or occurring by, metalepsy. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a metalepsis. 2. Transverse; as, the metaleptic motion of a muscle.
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• BIMETALLIST
  An advocate of bimetallism.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• NONMETAL
  Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals.
• GLIDING MACHINE
  A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
• MONOMETALLIC
  Consisting of one metal; of or pertaining to monometallism.
• BIMETALLIC
  Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.