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Word Meanings - SWATHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A device attached to a mowing machine for raising the uncut fallen grain and marking the limit of the swath.

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  • MARKETABLENESS
    Quality of being marketable.
  • SWATH
    zwade, a swath of grass, G. schwad, schwaden; perhaps, originally, a 1. A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling. 2. The whole sweep of a scythe, or the whole breadth from which grass or grain is cut
  • GRAINED
    Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers. (more info) 1. Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough. 2. Dyed in grain; ingrained. Persons lightly dipped,
  • MACHINER
    One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
  • LIMITARIAN
    Tending to limit.
  • LIMITIVE
    Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
  • LIMITABLE
    Capable of being limited.
  • RAISE
    To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
  • RAISED
    1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
  • MARKETER
    One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.
  • MARKETSTEAD
    A market place. Drayton.
  • SWATHE
    To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers. Their children are never swathed or bound about with any thing when they are first born. Abp. Abbot.
  • MARK
    A license of reprisals. See Marque.
  • RAIS
    See REIS
  • SWATHER
    A device attached to a mowing machine for raising the uncut fallen grain and marking the limit of the swath.
  • MARKSMAN
    One who makes his mark, instead of writing his name, in signing documents. Burrill. (more info) 1. One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well.
  • DEVICEFUL
    Full of devices; inventive. A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread. Chapman.
  • GRAINING
    The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt. (more info) 1. Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins. Locke. 2. A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised. 3. Painting
  • MARKABLE
    Remarkable. Sandys.
  • MARKIS
    A marquis. Chaucer.
  • GRAMME MACHINE
    A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
  • TRADE-MARK
    A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
  • SEAMARK
    Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like. Shak.
  • APPRAISER
    One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
  • LIVRAISON
    A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.
  • BURRING MACHINE
    A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
  • UNLIMITED
    1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
  • HEBRAIST
    One versed in the Hebrew language and learning.
  • BOOKMARK
    Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.
  • MISRAISE
    To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
  • PRAISEWORTHINESS
    The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
  • COMMARK
    The frontier of a country; confines. Shelton.
  • INGRAIN
    1. Dyed with grain, or kermes. 2. Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. --
  • REMARKER
    One who remarks.

 

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