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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In wire-drawing, a machine in which wire is reduced in size or brought to gage by being drawn through openings of standard size. See
drawing-bench and drawing-block.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called
drawing bench .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
machine in which long pieces ofmetal aredrawn through adrawplate ,die , or series of dies, to change the shape, size, cross-sectional area, physical properties, or surface finish of the metal.
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