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tacking-machine

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In shoe manufacturing, a machine, allied to the nailing-machine, for cutting, twisting, corrugating, and bending wire into nails, tacks, and staples, driving the nails into shoe-heels and soles, and also tacking soles and uppers together. It is made in various forms.

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