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(transitive, often figuratively) To fashion on, or as if on, an anvil.
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A person employed in metalworking to take folded metal sheets from the doubler and pass them back to the rollerman.
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(US, euphemistic, military) A significant incident with a nuclear weapon, nuclear components, or nuclear-bearing vehicle.
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A metalworking process to form the rough shape of a sheet-metal workpiece.
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A person qualified to make or repair boilers.
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A machine that packs products into cartons.
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(foundry) The top part of a sand casting mold.
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(printing) A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is wound.
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(metalworking) A projecting piece on a pattern which forms, in the mould, an impression for holding in place or steadying a core.
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(engineering) A manufacturer of the cores used to produce the hollow parts of castings.
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A sheet metal forming process in which a sheet metal blank is radially drawn into a forming die by the mechanical action of a punch.
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The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the mould.
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A machine in which long pieces of metal are drawn through a drawplate, die, or series of dies, to change the shape, size, cross-sectional area, physical properties, or surface finish of the metal.
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A turning lathe in which the cutting tool has an automatic feed; used chiefly for turning and boring metals, cutting screws, etc.
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A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
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A maker of files (rasping tools).
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A person who fits or assembles something.
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The act of making such grooves.
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Alternative form of gun-paper [Paper-pulp that has been impregnated with nitrates, used for the explosive charge in firearms.]
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(obsolete, brick-making) The piling of bricks for drying.
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A worker who uses a jolley (type of lathe).
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designed for occasional or moderate service only —used of a tool or a machine
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The science and art of making and defeating locks.
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(law) Abbreviation of machinery. [The machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively.]
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In the manner or style of a machine.
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One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
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(obsolete) A bathing machine.
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A facility that has machine tools for working with metals or other relatively hard materials, such as some polymers. Various kinds of machine shops make and repair all types of metal objects, from machine tools, dies, and molds to mass-produced parts such as screws, pistons, or gears.
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(mechanical engineering) A tool, typically a power-driven machine, used for machining, such as a lathe, milling machine, shaper, planer, hobber, drill press or jig borer.
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One who operates a machine.
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The working parts of a machine as a group.
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The use of machines or machine-like systems of organization and production.
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One skilled in the use of machine tools for fashioning metal parts or tools out of metal.
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The production of goods through the use of machines.
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(metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly embedded when a mould is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mould.
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An engraver, designer or maker of medals.
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(mechanical engineering) A machine tool in which a rotating cutter is moved against the workpiece (or vice versa) in order to cut the latter to a desired shape.
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A person engaged in the erection of machinery.
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A box in which molten steel is hydraulically compressed.
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(milling) A mill for shaping timber.
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(engineering) A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring the several tools successively into position.
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(woodworking) Alternative spelling of mortiser [(woodworking) A person or a machine that cuts mortises.]
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(woodworking) A person or a machine that cuts mortises.
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A machine used for moulding.
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(dated) A kind of paperknife; a thin, flat blade of ivory, etc. for cutting open the leaves of books and other folded papers.
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A person or company that makes paper
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A machine that can bore a tunnel underground
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(uncountable) A metalworking technique for smoothly finishing a surface.
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A machine used in cold-forming sheet metal or strips of metal into desired profiles.
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A molding machine in founding, in which the flask can be reversed.
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A person who collects woodworking planes.
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A machine, or an appendage to a turning lathe, by which a surface or wood, metal, etc., is engraved with a variety of curved lines.
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A type of joint in woodworking.
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The time spent by a foundry or machine shop to make a custom item.
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A construction worker specializing in fabricating and erecting steel components
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Alternative form of steelmaker [A person who works with steel.]
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Alternative form of steelworker [A person who manufactures or shapes steel.]
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(engineering) An assembly containing a seal, or sealing material, around a shaft.
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A tool used for precise shaping of materials such as wood or tiles.
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A machine for forming tenons.
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The provision of tools for an industrial process or for software development.
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One who welds, or wields.
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A welder (machine for welding).
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A person skilled at woodturning.
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(machining, woodworking, etc.) The raw material or partially finished piece that is shaped by performing various operations.
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Alternative form of work-tool [An implement used in performing or completing a specific job or task]
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