washing-engine love

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In paper manufacturing, the first of the series of rag-cutting and -cleaning machines used to reduce rags to pulp. It cleans the rags and cuts them to the size known as half-stuff, which is passed on to the beating-engine. See rag-engine.

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