Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The short fibers that cling to cottonseeds after the first ginning.
  • noun A machine that removes these short fibers from the seeds of cotton.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A machine for stripping off the short-staple cotton-fiber which adheres to cotton-seed after ginning, preparatory to extraction of oil from the seed.
  • noun A corrupt dialectal form of lean-to.
  • noun Same as lint-doctor.
  • noun plural The short fibers of cotton which are removed by a second ginning process, from cotton-seed which has been once ginned. Also called regins.

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

  • noun The short fibres that cling to cottonseeds after the first ginning.

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Examples

  • Hurley's occasional step and soft whistle out in the "linter" at the rear where lay his packing-boxes.

    Under Fire Charles King 1888

  • "I'se gwine to make it 'spectable, so she won't be' shamed if she ever comes back to see whar she was bawn," he had thought, and to him it seemed almost palatial, with its addition, which he called a "linter," and which consisted of a large room furnished with a most heterogeneous mass of articles gathered here and there as he could afford them.

    The Cromptons Mary Jane Holmes 1866

  • "linter" of the corral, he had been roused by the sudden yell at the ranch, followed by swift shooting, screams and cries of Mrs. Bennett and the children, the outburst of flame, and then he saw them, the

    Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War Charles King 1888

  • a "linter" chamber as this when he was a boy, and that he never could sleep anywhere now so well as he used there while the rain fell on the roof just over his bed.

    Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

  • Now the seed, free of all else, is carried by another elevator and endless screw conveyor to the "linter."

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 Various

  • A later form of many houses was two stories or two stories and a half in front, with a peaked roof that sloped down nearly to the ground in the back over an ell covering the kitchen, added in the shape known as a lean-to, or, as it was called by country folk, the linter.

    Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • And we think that the linter pricing will remain stable to where it is now going forward unless cotton makes another really significant move.

    unknown title 2011

  • So it has kind of bucked the trend in aligning cotton prices and cotton linter prices, primarily based on demand for linters.

    unknown title 2011

  • We now have more than 90% of our Memphis cotton linter pulp demand covered by long-term sales contracts containing cost pass-through provisions.

    Buckeye Announces Second Quarter FY 2011 Results - Yahoo! Finance 2011

  • S.linter Cell: Conviction PC sneaks out two weeks after 360 version Cheer the U.S. S.ccer Team with "Ya Mampela!" on Cox

    Gadling Laurel Miller 2010

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