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Word Meanings - NIPPERS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A device with fingers or jaws for seizing an object and holding or conveying it; as, in a printing press, a clasp for catching a sheet and conveying it to the form. (more info) 1. Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.

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  • SHEET CHAIN
    A chain sheet cable.
  • BREAKMAN
    See BRAKEMAN
  • HOLD
    The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.
  • OBJECTIVENESS
    Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
  • BREAKABLE
    Capable of being broken.
  • PRINTLESS
    Making no imprint. Milton.
  • CUTTHROAT
    One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
  • CLASPER
    1. One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. "The claspers of vines." Derham. One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea. One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side
  • OBJECTIST
    One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy. Ed. Rev.
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • CATCHWORK
    A work or artificial watercourse for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.
  • OBJECT
    before, to oppose; ob + jacere to throw: cf. objecter. See 1. To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose. Of less account some knight thereto object, Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove. Fairfax. Some strong
  • CATCHER
    The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, catches.
  • OBJECTIVATE
    To objectify.
  • CATCHWORD
    The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing. 3. A word or phrase caught up and repeated for effect; as,
  • HOLDBACK
    1. Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle. The only holdback is the affection . . . that we bear to our wealth. Hammond. 2. The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when
  • PRESSIROSTRAL
    Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.
  • PRESSIVE
    Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation. Bp. Hall.
  • PRESSGANG
    See PRESS
  • PRINTA-BLE
    Worthy to be published.
  • MAKE AND BREAK
    Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
  • SCATCH
    A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth. Bailey.
  • LAWBREAKER
    One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
  • INHOLD
    To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. Sir W. Raleigh.
  • COPYHOLDER
    One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader.
  • HOTPRESSED
    Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t.
  • POST-DISSEIZOR
    A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor. Blackstone.
  • IMPRINT
    to imprint, fr. L. imprimere to impres, imprint. See 1st In-, Print, 1. To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp. And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands. Prior. 2. To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates,
  • STRAW-CUTTER
    An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
  • HIGH-HOLDER
    The flicker; -- called also high-hole.
  • BEAUCATCHER
    A small flat curl worn on the temple by women.
  • BLANCH HOLDING
    A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent or otherwise.
  • BEHOLDER
    One who beholds; a spectator.
  • SPRINT
    To run very rapidly; to run at full speed. A runner should be able to sprint the whole way. Encyc. Brit. (more info) Etym:

 

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