Word Meanings - JIM-CROW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A machine for bending or straightening rails. 2. A planing machine with a reversing tool, to plane both ways.

Related words: (words related to JIM-CROW)

• PLANKING
  1. The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel. 2. The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• PLANE TREE
  See PLANE
• REVERSION
  The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after
• PLANISHING
  a. & vb. n. from Planish, v. t. Planishing rolls , rolls between which metal strips are passed while cold, to bring them to exactly the required thickness.
• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• PLANARIOID
  Like the planarians.
• PLANOMETER
  An instrument for gauging or testing a plane surface. See Surface gauge, under Surface.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• REVERSIS
  A certain game at cards.
• PLANTIGRADE
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
• PLANISPHERIC
  Of or pertaining to a planisphere.
• STRAIGHTENER
  One who, or that which, straightens.
• PLANKTON
  All the animals and plants, taken collectively, which live at or near the surface of salt or fresh waters. --Plank*ton"ic , a.
• BENDER
  1. One who, or that which, bends. 2. An instrument used for bending. 3. A drunken spree. Bartlett. 4. A sixpence.
• PLANCHET
  A flat piece of metal; especially, a disk of metal ready to be stamped as a coin.
• REVERSIONER
  One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated. Blackstone.
• PLANETULE
  A little planet. Conybeare.
• PLANLESS
  Having no plan.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• COMPLANATE
  Flattened to a level surface.
• SPLANCHNAPOPHYSIS
  Any element of the skeleton in relation with the alimentary canal, as the jaws and hyoidean apparatus. -- Splanch`nap`o*phys"i*al, a. Mivart.
• HYDROBIPLANE
  A hydro-aëroplane having two supporting planes.
• EXPLANATE
  Spreading or extending outwardly in a flat form.
• DEPLANATE
  Flattened; made level or even.
• LAMINIPLANTAR
  Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.