Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A coach-horse; a horse that draws a stage-coach.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare One who or operates a machine; a machinist{2}.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
operates amachine . - noun obsolete A
horse employed topull avehicle .
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| Reply | Permalink but ... you forget the crucial Maine snow-mobiler, er, snow-machiner vote.
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Very simply: None of the four firms involved in this tributary value stream for a jet engine—the melter, the forger, the machiner, and the final assembler—had ever fully explained its activities to the other three.
Lean Thinking James P. Womack 2003
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In the number for August 6, as I could not get our machiner to print any
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Scott was used to say, of "refreshing the machiner," Dryden wrote his famous ode, "Alexander's Feast," for a meeting of the Musical Society on
The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes John Dryden 1665
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_spavin_, during the last hunting season, he was sold for a __machiner; but being since fired and turned out, he had come up all right, and was now, according to coachee's disinterested opinion, one of the best hunters in the kingdom.
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828
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