Word Meanings - NIPPERS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A device with fingers or jaws for seizing an object and holding or conveying it; as, in a printing press, a clasp for catching a sheet and conveying it to the form. (more info) 1. Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.

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• SHEET CHAIN
  A chain sheet cable.
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• HOLD
  The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• PRINTLESS
  Making no imprint. Milton.
• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• CLASPER
  1. One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. "The claspers of vines." Derham. One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea. One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side
• OBJECTIST
  One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy. Ed. Rev.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• CATCHWORK
  A work or artificial watercourse for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.
• OBJECT
  before, to oppose; ob + jacere to throw: cf. objecter. See 1. To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose. Of less account some knight thereto object, Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove. Fairfax. Some strong
• CATCHER
  The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, catches.
• OBJECTIVATE
  To objectify.
• CATCHWORD
  The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing. 3. A word or phrase caught up and repeated for effect; as,
• HOLDBACK
  1. Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle. The only holdback is the affection . . . that we bear to our wealth. Hammond. 2. The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when
• PRESSIROSTRAL
  Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.
• PRESSIVE
  Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation. Bp. Hall.
• PRESSGANG
  See PRESS
• PRINTA-BLE
  Worthy to be published.
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• SCATCH
  A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth. Bailey.
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• INHOLD
  To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. Sir W. Raleigh.
• COPYHOLDER
  One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader.
• HOTPRESSED
  Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t.
• POST-DISSEIZOR
  A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor. Blackstone.
• IMPRINT
  to imprint, fr. L. imprimere to impres, imprint. See 1st In-, Print, 1. To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp. And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands. Prior. 2. To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates,
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• HIGH-HOLDER
  The flicker; -- called also high-hole.
• BEAUCATCHER
  A small flat curl worn on the temple by women.
• BLANCH HOLDING
  A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent or otherwise.
• BEHOLDER
  One who beholds; a spectator.
• SPRINT
  To run very rapidly; to run at full speed. A runner should be able to sprint the whole way. Encyc. Brit. (more info) Etym: