SHEAR TENDER

Domain	Definition
Occupations	Tends machine equipped with rotary blades that trim loose threads from selvage of cloth: Segregates cloth according to type and width. Turns wheel to set width and $T3tension guides$T1 on machine for each batch. Inserts rod into center of cloth roll and lifts roll onto machine brackets. Sews cloth end to leader in machine, using portable sewing machine. Observes cloth feeding into scray or over inspection board to detect torn selvages, holes, or soils, and cuts out torn sections, or identifies defects with adhesive stickers. Ravels seam to separate roll of trimmed cloth and doffs roll, using hoist, or by pushing it onto platform. Starts cloth winding onto new beam or tube. May verify yardage in rolls. May work as member of team to creel and doff cloth rolls. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: SHEAR TENDER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-h-n-r-r-s-t"
	-2 letters: adherents, easterner, hardeners, heartened, neatherds, rehardens, rehearsed, reheaters, rethreads, serenader, tenderers, threaders.
	-3 letters: adherent, adherers, arrested, arrestee, deserter, enterers, haeredes, hardener, hastened, hastener, headrest, heartens, neatherd, reearned, reenters, reharden, rehearse, reheated, reheater, renested, reseated, resented, rethread, retreads, serenade, serenate, serrated, strander, tenderer, terranes, terreens, terrenes, threader, treaders.
	-4 letters: adherer, adheres, aethers, anthers, darners.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-e-h-n-r-r-s-t"
	+3 letters: threadbareness.
	+4 letters: hardheartedness, trueheartedness, warmheartedness.
	+5 letters: greatheartedness, largeheartedness, threadbarenesses.
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.