Word Meanings - WILLIER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who works at a willying machine.

Related words: (words related to WILLIER)

• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• WILLY NILLY
  See WILL
• WORKSHOP
  A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.
• WORKSHIP
  Workmanship.
• WILLY
  See 2 (more info) 1. A large wicker basket. Halliwell.
• WILLYING
  The process of cleansing wool, cotton, or the like, with a willy, or willow. Willying machine. Same as 1st Willow, 2
• 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.
• TOWILLY
  The sanderling; -- so called from its cry.
• WILLIWAW; WILLYWAW
  A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan. W. C. Russell.
• GLIDING MACHINE
  A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.
• TWILLY
  A machine for cleansing or loosening wool by the action of a revolving cylinder covered with long iron spikes or teeth; a willy or willying machine; -- called also twilly devil, and devil. See Devil, n., 6, and Willy. Tomlinson.
• COPPER WORKS
  A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. Woodward.
• WAXWORKS
  An exhibition of wax figures, or the place of exhibition.
• 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.
• DEADWORKS
  The parts of a ship above the water when she is laden.
• COAL WORKS
  A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal.
• IRON WORKS
  . See under Iron, a.
• DULWILLY
  The ring plover.