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In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles. Dividing sinker, in knitting machines, a sinker between two jack sinkers and acting alternately with them. -- Jack sinker. See under Jack, n. -- Sinker bar. (a) In knitting machines, a bar to wh…

The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins, as sheepskins.

A slabbing machine.

Adapted for forming slabs, or for dressing flat surfaces. Slabbing machine, a milling machine.

A machine for applying size to warp yarns.

A guideway in a knitting machine. Knight.

One who, or that which, slides; especially, a sliding part of an instrument or machine.

where iron bars or plates are slit into narrow strips, as nail rods, and the like. (b) A machine used by lapidaries for slicing stones, usually by means of a revolving disk, called a slicer, supplied with diamond powder. -- Slitting roller, one of a pair of rollers furnished with ribs entering between similar ribs in…

slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning.

A slubbing machine.

from Slub. Slubbing billy, or Slubbing machine, the machine by which slubs are formed.

In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.

A mixture of white lead and lime, with which the bright parts of machines, such as the connecting rods of steamboats, are painted to be preserved from oxidation.

but will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room. Addison. Smut mill, a machine for cleansing grain from smut.

To make solid or compact. Every machine is a solidified mechanical theorem. H. Spencer.

A bar or key, in a typewriter or typesetting machine, used for spacing between letters.

One who, or that which, spades; specifically, a digging machine.

led with air or other dielectric between high potential terminals (as of an electrostatic machine, induction coil, or condenser), through which the discharge passes; the air gap of a jump spark.

A device for automatically counting the revolutions or pulsations of an engine or other machine; -- called also simply counter.

A machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings.