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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of sizar.
  • noun An instrument or contrivance of perforated plates, wirework, etc., for sorting articles of varying sizes; a kind of gage: as, a coffee -sizer; a bullet -sizer, which has holes to determine the size of bullets.
  • noun A wood-turning chisel which has an adjustable gage for regulating the size of the work.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See sizar.
  • noun An instrument or contrivance to size articles, or to determine their size by a standard, or to separate and distribute them according to size.
  • noun An instrument or tool for bringing anything to an exact size.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative form of sizar.
  • noun An instrument or contrivance to size articles, or to determine their size by a standard, or to separate and distribute them according to size.
  • noun An instrument or tool for bringing anything to an exact size.

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