Word Meanings - PRESSER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who, or that which, presses. Presser bar, or Presser wheel , a bar or wheel which closes the barbs of the needles to enable the loops of the yarn to pass over them. -- Presser foot, the part of a sewing machine which rests on the cloth

Additional info about word: PRESSER

One who, or that which, presses. Presser bar, or Presser wheel , a bar or wheel which closes the barbs of the needles to enable the loops of the yarn to pass over them. -- Presser foot, the part of a sewing machine which rests on the cloth and presses it down upon the table of the machine.

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• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• NEEDLESS
  1. Having no need. Weeping into the needless stream. Shak. 2. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses. 3. Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless. "Needless jealousy." Shak. -- Need"less*ly,
• NEEDLESTONE
  Natrolite; -- called also needle zeolite.
• WHEELBIRD
  The European goatsucker.
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• 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.
• WHEEL OF FORTUNE
  A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.
• ENABLE
  1. To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong. "Who hath enabled me." 1 Tim. i. 12. Receive the Holy Ghost, said Christ to his apostles, when he enabled them with priestly power. Jer. Taylor. 2. To make able ; to confer sufficient
• WHEELWRIGHT
  A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like.
• WHEELED
  Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a four- wheeled carriage.
• CLOTHESHORSE
  A frame to hang clothes on.
• WHEELBARROW
  A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.
• 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.
• WHEELWORK
  A combination of wheels, and their connection, in a machine or mechanism.
• WHEELING
  1. The act of conveying anything, or traveling, on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle. 2. The act or practice of using a cycle; cycling. 3. Condition of a road or roads, which admits of passing on wheels; as, it is good wheeling, or bad wheeling.
• CLOTHIER
  1. One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward. 2. One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes.
• WHEELBAND
  The tire of a wheel.
• CLOTHING
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• SEWE
  To perform the duties of a sewer. See 3d Sewer.
• CLOTHESPIN
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• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
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• BEDCLOTHES
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• FOUR-WHEELER
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• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
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