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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | In metal mining, one who operates the hoisting engine of a scraper loader, known as a slusher, to load ore into cars or to scrape it into chutes, orto move sand or rock fill in the stopes. (references) |
Occupations | Tends machine that reduces broke or dry pulp sheets to pulp or slurry for use in making paper, wallboard, or related products: Dumps broke or pulp sheets onto conveyor or into vat to fill pulper machine. Pushes buttons and turns valves to admit water, ink removing solution, and steam that softens material to specified consistency. Starts beating machine that reduces material to pulp. Observes and monitors material, dials, or charts to ensure specified consistency of pulp. Opens discharge gate or starts pump to dump or transport pulp to storage or to other processes. May catch pulp in broke boxes and push boxes to beater engines. May push cart loads of broke from paper machines to pulper. May be designated according to material reduced as Broke-Beater Tender (paper & pulp; tex. prod., nec); or according to type of machine used as Hydropulper (paper & pulp). (references) |
| Operates hoisting engine and cable-drawn scraper or scoop, to load coal, ore, or rock into mine cars or onto conveyor in underground mine: Moves hoist into working place on car and sets up on timber foundation. Sets up snatch blocks (pulleys) and eyebolt, and anchors firmly to post or wall. Connects electric power lines and starts hoist. Moves levers to activate cable which drags scraper into face of ore, then drags full scraper to mine car for dumping. Moves hoist from place to place, using mine car. Lubricates, adjusts, and repairs engine and auxiliary equipment. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-l-o-o-p-r-r-r-s-s-t-u" | |
-3 letters: arthrospores, operatorless, porterhouses, reupholsters, upholsterers. | |
-4 letters: arthrospore, peashooters, porterhouse, reupholster, upholsterer. | |
-5 letters: apotheoses, peashooter, plasterers, poulterers, prelatures, prosateurs, pterosaurs, replasters, sporulates, storehouse, superheats, superstore, telophases, terrorless, treasurers, trehaloses, upholsters. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 4C 55 53 48 45 52      4F 50 45 52 41 54 4F 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001100 01010101 01010011 01001000 01000101 01010010 00100000 01001111 01010000 01000101 01010010 01000001 01010100 01001111 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S L U S H E R   O P E R A T O R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004C 0055 0053 0048 0045 0052      004F 0050 0045 0052 0041 0054 004F 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5346555342395224950395235544952 |
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