Word Meanings - WILLIER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who works at a willying machine.
Related words: (words related to WILLIER)
- MACHINER
One who or operates a machine; a machinist. - WILLY NILLY
See WILL - WORKSHOP
A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on. - WORKSHIP
Workmanship. - WILLY
See 2 (more info) 1. A large wicker basket. Halliwell. - WILLYING
The process of cleansing wool, cotton, or the like, with a willy, or willow. Willying machine. Same as 1st Willow, 2 - 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 - 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 - 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. - TOWILLY
The sanderling; -- so called from its cry. - WILLIWAW; WILLYWAW
A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan. W. C. Russell. - GLIDING MACHINE
A construction consisting essentially of one or more aƫroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground. - TWILLY
A machine for cleansing or loosening wool by the action of a revolving cylinder covered with long iron spikes or teeth; a willy or willying machine; -- called also twilly devil, and devil. See Devil, n., 6, and Willy. Tomlinson. - COPPER WORKS
A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. Woodward. - WAXWORKS
An exhibition of wax figures, or the place of exhibition. - 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 - SLOT MACHINE
A machine the operation of which is started by dropping a coin into a slot, for delivering small articles of merchandise, showing one's weight, exhibiting pictures, throwing dice, etc. - DEADWORKS
The parts of a ship above the water when she is laden. - COAL WORKS
A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal. - IRON WORKS
. See under Iron, a. - DULWILLY
The ring plover.