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Loosing; setting free; detaching. Disengaging machinery. See under Engaging.

A machine for grinding or pulverizing by percussion.

To take down, or apart, as a machine.

A machine for distributing type.

That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating. Dividing engine, a machine for graduating circles (as for astronomical instruments) or bars (as for scales); also, for spacing off and cutting teeth in wheels. -- Dividing sinker. (Knitting Mach.). See under Sinker.

y a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico- printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine.

A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton from the cards. Ure.

A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool.

One who draws plans and sketches of machinery, structures, and places; also, more generally, one who makes drawings of any kind.

A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called drawing bench.

The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.

dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.

A dredging machine.

a. Bow drill, Breast drill. See under Bow, Breast. -- Cotter drill, or Traverse drill, a machine tool for drilling slots. -- Diamond drill. See under Diamond. -- Drill jig. See under Jig. -- Drill pin, the pin in a lock which enters the hollow stem of the key. -- Drill sergeant (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer wh…

A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.

A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck.

by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound.

A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.

A dynamo-electric machine.

effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery.