Word Meanings - CORNSHELLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A machine that separates the kernels of corn from the cob.

MACHINER
One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
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 aëroplanes 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.