TIP STRETCHER

Domain	Definition
Occupations	Tends machine that kneads tips of felt hat cones to form and shape crowns of hats: Soaks cones in trough of heated water. Selects hat form according to size specifications, positions form on machine bed, and moves lever to secure form. Pulls soaked cone onto form and depresses pedal to raise form and cone against moving machine fingers that knead tip of cone, stretching cone onto form and shaping crown. Grasps bottom of cone and rotates cone to ensure symmetrical shaping of crown. Removes resulting hat body and pulls it onto hat block to smooth crown and set shape. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: TIP STRETCHER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-i-p-r-r-s-t-t-t"
	-2 letters: stretchier.
	-3 letters: chertiest, preterits, prettiest, stretcher, tephrites, tetchiest, titterers.
	-4 letters: cherries, chertier, chestier, chirpers, chitters, crepiest, critters, epithets, esthetic, heretics, herpetic, perchers, pettiest, piercers, pitchers, preciser, preterit, prettier, pretties, receipts, reciters, reprices, rescript, restitch, restrict, scripter, spherier, stitcher, stricter, techiest, tectites, tephrite, tetchier, thirster, titterer.
	-5 letters: ceriphs, cerites, chirper, chirres, chitter, ciphers, cithers, crepier.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.