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. - STRAW-CUTTER
An instrument to cut straw for fodder. - 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, - 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: