A device for winding yarn, paper, etc., on to a reel or reels; a reeling machine. Now chiefly Papermaking.

A wedge-shaped tool used by coopers in conjunction with a mallet to drive hoops on to a barrel. Also: a machine, or component of a machine, which…

A part of some apparatus which operates by rubbing; a machine which acts by rubbing. Formerly also: †a brake acting by friction on the wheels of…

Manufacturing Technology. A machine for forming the heads on various small metal parts, esp. on fastenings such as nails and rivets.

Any machine, tool, or other implement used for bruising or crushing something, esp. a grain or fodder crop. Also with modifying word. Now chiefly…

spec. In various trades: The workman, or machine, that performs the final operation in manufacture.

A machine or appliance for stripping.

A machine for taking casts and imprints of human faces.

A rotary machine or engine; spec. a rotary printing press.

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A device or contrivance for quickening or regulating the speed of machinery; also, a kind of roving-machine used in cotton-manufacture.

Any of various machines used for removing unwanted material from something in preparation for further refinement or processing; a dressing machine.

An object or device used to make a space, interval, or division; (also) a mechanism that regulates or controls spacing.

A machine used to starch clothing, cloth, etc. Now rare.

The action of bronze, v. Also attributive, as in bronzing liquid, machine, bronzing salt, etc.

A machine for ‘grading’ (in various senses).

A machine used to affect, examine, or monitor the brain.

(a) a machine in which peanuts are roasted; (b) U.S. slang, a vehicle, piece of machinery, etc., that puffs or hisses.

The action or process of shaping wood, iron, or other material by pressure instead of by cutting or casting. Chiefly attributive and in other…

More fully standard screw machine. A machine used for attaching soles to shoes by inserting and cutting off lengths of threaded wire. Now historical…

(see quot.). See also under tyre, n.1

One who or that which bunches; spec. a machine for forming bunches or collecting things in bunches.

= flax-brake n.

An apparatus for generating oscillatory electric currents, or for generating electromagnetic waves by means of such currents. Also: a device for…

Medicine and Materials Science. An apparatus used to obtain an instantaneous X-ray image of an object (originally on a fluorescent screen, later…

Medicine. An apparatus used in conjunction with a fluoroscope to locate accurately the position of foreign objects within the body. Now historical.

Chiefly North American. A small excavator or digger.

a machine or installation that performs spray drying.

A machine for depositing and spreading surfacing material for a road, etc.

A machine that makes tea bags; a company that makes or sells tea bags.

A machine or device for bursting stationery (see burst, v. 9d).

A machine designed to produce artificial ice for a skating rink or similar location.

A machine for making laminates, esp. one for bonding paper or the like to plastic film.

A mould open at both ends in which a structure of uniform cross-section is cast by filling it with concrete and continually moving and refilling…

A machine that extrudes (see extrude, v.).

A proprietary name for a machine used to resurface ice rinks.

More fully manipulator arm. Any mechanical device capable of manipulative operations resembling those of a human hand or arm.

an apparatus for producing waves in water.

A person who or machine which lays pipes for water, gas, etc.

(a) a machine which assists a person in walking; (b) a machine which is able to walk and is controlled by a person.