Word Meanings - PIECENER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills. 2. Same as Piecer, 2.

Related words: (words related to PIECENER)

• SLUBBERDEGULLION
  A mean, dirty wretch.
• WOOLEN
  1. Made of wool; consisting of wool; as, woolen goods. 2. Of or pertaining to wool or woolen cloths; as, woolen manufactures; a woolen mill; a woolen draper. Woolen scribbler, a machine for combing or preparing wool in thin, downy, translucent
• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• MILLSTONE
  One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance. No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge. Deut. xxiv. 6. Note: The cellular siliceous rock called buhrstone is usually employed for millstones; also, some
• SLUBBER
  1. To do lazily, imperfectly, or coarsely. Slubber not business for my sake. Shak. 2. To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly. There is no art that hath more . . . slubbered with aphorisming pedantry than the art of policy. Milton.
• SLUBBERINGLY
  In a slovenly, or hurried and imperfect, manner. Drayton.
• SLUBBING
  from Slub. Slubbing billy, or Slubbing machine, the machine by which slubs are formed.
• 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.
• BESLUBBER
  To beslobber.
• 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.
• BURR MILLSTONE
  See BUHRSTONE
• 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.