Word Meanings - STRIPPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
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- STRIPPING
The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required - MACHINER
One who or operates a machine; a machinist. - SPECIFICALLY
In a specific manner. - 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. - STRIPPER
One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards. - 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. - STRIPPET
A small stream. "A little brook or strippet." Holinshed. - MACHINE
1. In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a - MACHINERY
1. Machines, in general, or collectively. 2. The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch. 3. The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to - 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. - GLIDING MACHINE
A construction consisting essentially of one or more aƫroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground. - VICKERS-MAXIM AUTOMATIC MACHINE GUN
An automatic machine gun in which the mechanism is worked by the recoil, assisted by the pressure of gases from the muzzle, which expand in a gas chamber against a disk attached to the end of the barrel, thus moving the latter to the rear - SLOT MACHINE
A machine the operation of which is started by dropping a coin into a slot, for delivering small articles of merchandise, showing one's weight, exhibiting pictures, throwing dice, etc.