Meanings
nounslotting machine (plural slotting machines)
plural slotting machines
- A reciprocating machine tool used to cut mortises and to shape openings.
One old chap on a huge slotting machine was intensely religious and made great efforts to convert every young man who came his way.
1944 September and October, A Former Student, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 285
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 插床
- 插床 (chāchuáng)reciprocating machine tool used to cut mortises and to shape openings
Finnish talttauskone, pistokone
- talttauskonereciprocating machine tool used to cut mortises and to shape openings
- pistokonereciprocating machine tool used to cut mortises and to shape openings
Irish meaisín gearrtha sliotán
- meaisín gearrtha sliotánreciprocating machine tool used to cut mortises and to shape openings
Italian stozzatrice
- stozzatricereciprocating machine tool used to cut mortises and to shape openings
Polish dłutownica
- dłutownicareciprocating machine tool used to cut mortises and to shape openings
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Chicago
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