Word Meanings - SHINGLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who shingles. 2. A machine for shingling puddled iron.

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• SHINGLER
  1. One who shingles. 2. A machine for shingling puddled iron.
• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• SHINGLE
  Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
• PUDDLER
  One who converts cast iron into wrought iron by the process of puddling.
• PUDDLY
  Consisting of, or resembling, puddles; muddy; foul. "Thick puddly water." Carew.
• SHINGLY
  Abounding with shingle, or gravel.
• SHINGLES
  A kind of herpes which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.
• SHINGLING
  The process of expelling scoriæ and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron. Shingling hammer, a ponderous hammer moved by machinery, used in shingling puddled iron. -- Shingling mill, a mill or forge where
• PUDDLE-BAR
  An iron bar made at a single heat from a puddle-ball hammering and rolling.
• MACHINE
  1. In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a
• PUDDLE
  1. A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool. Spenser. 2. Clay, or a mixture of clay and sand, kneaded or worked, when wet, to render it impervious to water. Puddle poet, a low or worthless poet. Fuller.
• PUDDLE-BALL
  The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.
• MACHINERY
  1. Machines, in general, or collectively. 2. The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch. 3. The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to
• PUDDLING
  The art or process of converting cast iron into wrought iron or steel by subjecting it to intense heat and frequent stirring in a reverberatory furnace in the presence of oxidizing substances, by which it is freed from a portion of its carbon and
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• GLIDING MACHINE
  A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.
• GUSHINGLY
  , adv. 1. In a gushing manner; copiously. Byron. 2. Weakly; sentimentally; effusively.
• FLUSHINGLY
  In a flushing manner.
• FLOURISHINGLY
  , adv. In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.
• VICKERS-MAXIM AUTOMATIC MACHINE GUN
  An automatic machine gun in which the mechanism is worked by the recoil, assisted by the pressure of gases from the muzzle, which expand in a gas chamber against a disk attached to the end of the barrel, thus moving the latter to the rear
• BLUSHINGLY
  In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly.
• DASHINGLY
  Conspicuously; showily. A dashingly dressed gentleman. Hawthorne.
• RAVISHINGLY
  In a ravishing manner.
• ENRAVISHINGLY
  So as to throw into ecstasy.