Word Meanings - SELF-BINDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A reaping machine containing mechanism for binding the grain into sheaves.

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• REAP
  A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut. Wright.
• GRAINED
  Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers. (more info) 1. Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough. 2. Dyed in grain; ingrained. Persons lightly dipped,
• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• REAPPORTIONMENT
  A second or a new apportionment.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• MECHANISM
  An ideal machine; a combination of movable bodies constituting a machine, but considered only with regard to relative movements. (more info) 1. The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the
• BINDING POST
  A metallic post attached to electrical apparatus for convenience in making connections.
• BINDING
  That binds; obligatory. Binding beam , the main timber in double flooring. -- Binding joist , the secondary timber in double-framed flooring. Syn. -- Obligatory; restraining; restrictive; stringent; astringent; costive; styptic.
• REAPPEARANCE
  A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.
• GRAINY
  Resembling grains; granular.
• BINDING SCREW
  A set screw used to bind parts together, esp. one for making a connection in an electrical circuit.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• GRAINER
  1. An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate. 2. A knife for taking the hair off skins. 3. One who paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble,
• GRAINING
  A small European fresh-water fish ; - called also dobule, and dace.
• REAPPROACH
  To approach again or anew.
• REAPPLY
  To apply again.
• GRAINS
  1. See 5th Grain, n., 2 . 2. Pigeon's dung used in tanning. See Grainer. n., 1.
• BINDERY
  A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment.
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• SUBINDIVIDUAL
  A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton.
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• INGRAIN
  1. Dyed with grain, or kermes. 2. Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. --
• BIND
  bunden; akin to D. & G. binden, Dan. binde, Sw. & Icel. binda, Goth. bindan, Skr. bandh to bind, cf. Gr. cable, and L. 1. To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to
• CROSSGRAINED
  1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.
• PREAPPREHENSION
  An apprehension or opinion formed before examination or knowledge. Sir T. Browne.
• SPELLBIND
  To bind or hold by, or as if by, a spell or charm; to fascinate, esp. by eloquence of speech, as in a political campaign. - - Spell"bind`er , n.
• GLIDING MACHINE
  A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.
• MIGRAINE
  See A
• FELT GRAIN
  , the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber. Knight.
• PREAPPOINTMENT
  Previous appointment.