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- noun Plural form of
machiner .
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Examples
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The dispatcher, a leathery middle-aged woman with a harassed look on her face, tossed Jim Earl the keys while talking nonstop through her headset, something about a joust between two dueling snow machiners on the Icky road.
Fire and Ice Stabenow, Dana 1998
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In the news-screen, they saw the spaceship at Storisende still far from half finished, with swarms of heavy-duty lifters and contragravity machiners around it, and a set of landing-stands, on which the second ship was to be built, in the process of construction.
The Cosmic Computer H. Beam Piper 1934
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"Oh! there are a great many places -- it depends upon what kind of horse you want: for race-horses, steeple-chasers, and hunters, I would recommend Tattersall's; for hacks or machiners, there's Aldridge's, in St. Martin's Lane; while Dixon's, in the Barbican, is the place to pick up a fine young carthorse -- is it a young cart-horse you want?"
Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil Frank E. Smedley 1835
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Midea Group in turn owns 39% of GD Midea, the big maker of refrigerator, air conditioners, washing machiners and other appliances whose shares trade on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
Forbes.com: News Russell Flannery 2011
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